On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:31 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Another option is that in cases where it doesn't affect storage layouts, > like the counting tuples case that started this thread, code could just > use long long int directly instead of int64. Then if someone wants to > make it 128 bits or 96 bits or whatever it would not be a problem.
I think that sort of thing tends not to work out well, because at some point it's likely to be sent out via the wire protocol; at that point we'll need a value of a certain width. Better to use that width right from the beginning. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
