On 2021-Apr-01, Tom Lane wrote:
> "'alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org'" <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > On 2021-Apr-01, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> BTW, what in the world is this supposed to accomplish?
> >> - (long long) rows_to_send);
> >> + (1L << 62) + (long long) rows_to_send);
>
> > It makes the text representation wider, which means some buffer fills up
> > faster and the program switches from sending to receiving.
>
> Hm. If the actual field value isn't relevant, why bother including
> rows_to_send in it? A constant string would be simpler and much
> less confusing as to its purpose.
Hah, yeah, we could as well do that I guess :-)
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