Would someone review these problems and submit a patch?  Thanks.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Cott Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If the number of tuples is sufficiently high, pg reports 'reltuples'
> > back in TABLE_STATS_QUERY in scientific notation instead of an integer.
> 
> Right, because that column is actually a float4.
> 
> > Changing from atoi() to atof() solves the problem completely.
> 
> > new_tbl->reltuples = 
> >   atof(PQgetvalue(res, row, PQfnumber(res, "reltuples")));
> 
> > new_tbl->relpages = 
> >   atof(PQgetvalue(res, row, PQfnumber(res, "relpages")));
> 
> I should think this would break in different ways once reltuples exceeds
> INT_MAX.  A full fix would require changing new_tbl->reltuples to be
> float or double, and coping with any downstream changes that implies.
> 
> Also, relpages *is* an integer, though it's best interpreted as an
> unsigned one.  (Ditto for relid.)  Looks like this code is 0-for-3 on
> getting the datatypes right :-(
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 
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