At 11:06 AM 2/10/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >It needs to get done; AFAIK no one has stepped up to do it. Do you want >to?
I'll have a look; my main concern at the moment is that off_t and size_t are totally non-committal as to structure; in particular I can probably safely assume that they are unsigned, but can I assume that they have the same endian--ness as int etc? If so, then will it be valid to just read/write each byte in endian order? How likely is it that the 64 bit value will actually be implemented as a structure like: off_t { int lo; int hi; } which effectively ignores endian-ness at the 32 bit scale? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Warner | __---_____ Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \ (A.B.N. 75 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_ Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \ Fax: (+61) 0500 83 82 82 | ___________ | Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| | --________-- PGP key available upon request, | / and from pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371 |/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org