Re: pg_buffercache causes assertion failure

Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> 
> I couldn't use int4 as the underlying datatype is unsigned int (not 
> available as exposed Pg type). However, using int8 sounds promising (is 
> int8 larger than unsigned int on 64-bit platforms?).

Blocknumber is defined as uint32 in block.h - so should always be safe 
to represent as an int8 I am thinking.

I will look at patching pg_buffercache, changing numeric -> int8 for the 
relblocknumber column. This seems a tidier solution than using numeric, 
and loses the numeric overhead.

regards

Mark