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How to determine max int

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Melvin Call
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Good evening,

I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary.

Thanks again,
Melvin

Re: How to determine max int

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John R Pierce
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On 11/11/2013 4:14 PM, Melvin Call wrote:
> I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit
> systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But
> reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just
> four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to
> verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to
> look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary.

x86_64 integers are 32bit, bigints are 64bit.    this is true in most
all programming environments, from C on.





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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast



Re: How to determine max int

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Guy Rouillier
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On 11/11/2013 7:14 PM, Melvin Call wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit
> systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But
> reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just
> four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to
> verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to
> look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary.

The documentation seems pretty clear on integer data types:

http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/9.2/pg/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-INT

 From the documentation, the range of integer data types is not
platform-specific, other than for warning about BIGINT.  Perhaps you are
remembering compiler documentation, where the default integer size
typically *is* platform-dependent?

--
Guy Rouillier


Re: How to determine max int

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Melvin Call
Дата:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
On 11/11/2013 4:14 PM, Melvin Call wrote:
I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary.

x86_64 integers are 32bit, bigints are 64bit.    this is true in most all programming environments, from C on.

That is what I thought. I have no idea where I came up with the notion that it was 64 bits, but I have it in a note I took a while back. I guess I really am going crazy!

Thanks John

Re: How to determine max int

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Melvin Call
Дата:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Guy Rouillier <guy.rouillier@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/11/2013 7:14 PM, Melvin Call wrote:
Good evening,

I could swear I read somewhere that the default integer size on 64-bit
systems running 9.1 is eight bytes, or the equivalent of a bigint. But
reading through the user guide it seems that it is indeed still just
four-bytes. Can anyone verify that for me, or point me to a way to
verify it? I see nothing in pg_settings which is where I thought to
look. Not a big deal, I just need to know for the data dictionary.

The documentation seems pretty clear on integer data types:

http://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/en/9.2/pg/datatype-numeric.html#DATATYPE-INT

From the documentation, the range of integer data types is not platform-specific, other than for warning about BIGINT.  Perhaps you are remembering compiler documentation, where the default integer size typically *is* platform-dependent?

--
Guy Rouillier

Thanks Guy. Some dumb notion that I came up with somewhere in the past. I appreciate y'all setting me straight.

Melvin