Re: pgsql: Speed up conversion of signed integers to C strings.

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> writes:
>>> Speed up conversion of signed integers to C strings.
>
>> This patch breaks the build here:
>
> ... and while I'm looking at it, the added int8 regression test cases
> definitely merit a WTF.  They aren't testing what I would expect.
> What they are testing is platform-specific behavior of excessive
> shifting, which is why some of the buildfarm members are pink.

Ugh.  I made an attempt at a fix to both of these issues, but I'm not
totally sure I got it right, and I'm too tired to stay up any later to
see what happens.  I'll check the BF in the morning.

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