Re: [HACKERS] Re: int8 type substitute ?

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: honza@ied.com (Jan Vicherek)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-12-27T19:17:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> /me goes red in face. 10 seconds after I sent this off I found
> contrib/int8. That would answer one of my questions -- I.e. it would be
> reasonably simple to add my own data type. If somebody feels like
> answering the other questions too, please go ahead.
> 
>    Jan

6.4.* already has int8 support included, if your compiler supports it. 
When you run configure, it checks to see if 'long long' is int8, and if
so, enables int8 data types.

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