On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:53 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2020-09-21 14:08:22 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > There is no SQL type corresponding to the C data type uint32, so I'm > > not sure why we even have DatumGetUInt32. I'm sort of suspicious that > > there's some fuzzy thinking going on there. > > I think we mostly use it for the few places where we currently expose > data as a signed integer on the SQL level, but internally actually treat > it as a unsigned data.
So why is the right solution to that not DatumGetInt32() + a cast to uint32? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
