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Re: popcount

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2021-01-11T16:13:54Z
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 03:50:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-12-30 17:41, David Fetter wrote:
> > > The input may have more than 2 billion bits set to 1. The biggest possible
> > > result should be 8 billion for bytea (1 GB with all bits set to 1).
> > > So shouldn't this function return an int8?
> > It does now, and thanks for looking at this.
> 
> The documentation still reflects the previous int4 return type (in two
> different spellings, too).

Thanks for looking this over!

Please find attached the next version with corrected documentation.

Best,
David.
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