Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
> Tom Lane �rta:
>> I think that the compiler has caught an actual mistake here.
> Yes, it's a mistake, but not an actual bug.
> The intent was to be able to catch unhandled
> cases in the application, just as in ecpg_dynamic_type().
> The fix for sqlda_dynamic_type() is to use the same cast:
> return -(int) type;
> Should I send a patch for this?
You should send a patch to *get rid of it*. Putting in a cast only
hides the fact that this logic will break on OIDs above 2G.
regards, tom lane