Re: AW: AW: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL pre-7.1 Linux/Alpha Status...

[Tom Lane]

Zeugswetter Andreas SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Reading the code, I don't understand it. Why would strtoul return an
> int in the first place ? The name seems to imply an unsigned long
> return type.

What's your point?

        unsigned long cvt;

        cvt = strtoul(s, &endptr, 10);

The trick is to get from unsigned long to oid (which is unsigned int)
on machines where those are different sizes.

                        regards, tom lane