Re: Syntax for partitioning

* Jeff Davis (pgsql@j-davis.com) wrote:
> Oid is unsigned, typmod is signed. We might be able to get away with it,
> but -1 is treated specially in some places outside of the type-specific
> functions, e.g. exprTypmod().

Any negative result returned from the input handling function is
considered an error, as I recall.  It's more than just '-1'..

> I haven't looked at all of these places yet, so maybe a few simple
> changes would allow us to treat typmod as a full 32 bits. Or perhaps it
> could just be expanded to a signed 64-bit int. What do you think?

That was shot down previously due to the way typmods are passed around
currently..  Not that it wouldn't be really nice..
Thanks,
    Stephen