Re: [HACKERS] now 6.4

>
> > Even if catalogs would not be changed, initdb is required
> > since we have added a new function octet_length().
> >
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> And functions for implicit conversion between the old 1-byte "char" type
> and the new 1-byte "char[1]" type, same for "name" to/from "text".
>
> I have int8 (64-bit integers) ready to put into the backend. Once enough
> platforms figure out how to get 64-bit integers defined, then we can
> consider using them for numeric() and decimal() types also. Alphas and
> ix86/Linux should already work.
>
> I had assumed that PowerPC had 64-bit ints (along with 64-bit
> addressing) but now suspect I was wrong. If anyone volunteers info on
> how to get 64-bit ints on their platform I'll including that in the
> first version. For gcc on ix86, "long long int" does the trick, and for
> Alphas "long int" should be enough.

I thought all the GNU sites would work.

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