James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 3:39 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> mumble ssize_t mumble
> But wouldn't that mean we'd get int on 32-bit systems, and since we're
> accumulating data we could go over that value in both memory and disk?
Certainly, a number that's meant to represent the amount of data *on disk*
shouldn't use ssize_t. But I think it's appropriate if you want to
represent in-memory quantities while also allowing negative values.
I guess if you're expecting in-memory sizes exceeding 2GB, you might worry
that ssize_t could overflow. I'm dubious that a 32-bit machine could get
to that, though, seeing that it's going to have other demands on its
address space.
> My assumption is that it's preferable to have the "this run value" and
> the "total used across multiple runs" and both of those for disk and
> memory to be the same. In that case it seems we want to guarantee
> 64-bits.
If you're not going to distinguish in-memory from not-in-memory, agreed.
regards, tom lane