Re: signed short fd

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: pgsql@mohawksoft.com
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Qingqing Zhou <zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-03-14T23:53:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> The point is that this *is* silly, but I am at a loss to understand why it
> isn't a no-brainer to change. Why is there a fight over a trivial change
> which will ensure that PostgreSQL aligns to the documented behavior of
> "open()"

(Why characterise this as a "fight", rather than a discussion? Perhaps 
it is because of the same combative, adversarial attitude you seem to 
bring to every discussion you're involved in on -hackers...)

Anyway, I agree, there's no point keeping it a short; I highly doubt 
this would actually be a problem, but we may as well change it to an int.

-Neil