Folks, While going over places where I might use compiler intrinsics for things like ceil(log2(n))) and next power of 2(n), I noticed that a lot of things that can't be fractional are longs instead of, say, uint64s. Is this the case for historical reasons, or is there some more specific utility to expressing as longs things that can only have non-negative integer values? Did this practice pre-date our now-required 64-bit integers?
Thanks in advance for any insights into this! Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
