Re: [HACKERS] PostGreSQL v6.2.1 for Linux Alpha

Bruce:

> Take a look at utils/hash/hashfn.c:tag_hash.  Is there a problem in that
> code for your platform.  Is the hash getting set, or is it falling
> through the case statements?  This code is clearly broken for
> sizeof(int) > 4, but I think your ints are 4, and longs are 8.  I bet
> somewhere we are using a long where we should be using an int, and that
> is why only your platform is seeing it.  Is this true about long vs.
> int.  I can review our use of longs to see if there are problems.

I created a small program to return the size of values.  They are:

Size of short: 2
Size of char:  1
Size of int:   4
Size of long:  8

Does this help?

-- Ken
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