Re: [HACKERS] Question about 8-byte datatypes

2006-09-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:16:06AM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > > Is int8 a passed-by-value data type on 64-bit platforms? How do we arrange for > that to be the case? I don't see any magic in pg_type.h but I'm not sure what > I'm looking for. Not AFAIK. It would involve fiddeling the catalog, t

[HACKERS] Question about 8-byte datatypes

2006-09-05 Thread Gregory Stark
Is int8 a passed-by-value data type on 64-bit platforms? How do we arrange for that to be the case? I don't see any magic in pg_type.h but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I'm asking because I have another 8-byte data type I want to use and it would be nice to have that same property, assuming