Re: Why there is a PG_GETARG_UINT32 and PG_RETURN_UINT32?

<div dir="ltr">I am creating my own uint32 type and faced this function.<div style="style">But my args are always of
typemy_int and one of the signed int types as postgres doesn't hava unsigned.</div><div style="style">Could I use those
functionsin operations between those types?</div><div style="style">I can't see a place for this, I don't know if I am
missingsomething....</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at
1:12AM, Amit Kapila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amit.kapila@huawei.com"
target="_blank">amit.kapila@huawei.com</a>></span>wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thursday, April 04, 2013 8:30
PMRodrigo Barboza wrote:<br /><br /> > Hi guys.<br /> > I am wondering when I can use the PG_GETARG_UINT32 and
PG_RETURN_UINT32.<br/> > If postgres has no unsigned int type, what is the use of these macros?<br /><br
/></div></div>Theyare mainly used for contrib module functionality or some built-in<br /> functions which are not
exposed.<br/> For example, bt_page_items() receives relation name (text) and block number<br /> (int), but internally
theblock number<br /> is unit32 as max blocks can be oxFFFFFFFE.<br /><br /> With Regards,<br /> Amit Kapila.<br /><br
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