Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote: >> *some* set of inputs. (Also, I have been harboring some notions of >> supporting cross-type hash joins for integer types, which will not work >> unless small int8 values hash the same as int4 etc.)
> The simple solution would be to always extend integers to 64 bits (or > whatever the biggest integer is) before calculating the hash. That creates portability issues though. We do not depend on there being a 64-bit-int type for anything except int8 itself, and I don't want to start doing so. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings