Re: 64-bit API for large object

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp, ishii@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, anzai@sraoss.co.jp, nagata@sraoss.co.jp
Date: 2012-09-21T15:24:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> writes:
>> My preference is nothing are changed both pg_getmsgint64() of the backend
>> and routines under PQfn() of the libpq. Isn't it unavailable to deliver int64-
>> value "after" the endian translation on the caller side?
> 
> Right.  If we had to change anything on the backend side, it would mean
> we had a wire protocol change, which is even less acceptable than a
> libpq ABI change.

The patch does not touch pg_getmsgint64() and I don't think we are not
going have a wire protocol change.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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  1. Remove all the special-case code for INT64_IS_BUSTED, per decision that