On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 6:46 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> > On 3 Jul 2023, at 20:32, Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If there's a willingness to try this out, I am happy to prepare a patch.
>
> This has been discussed a number of times in the past, and the conclusion from
> last time IIRC was to use size_t for new code and only change the existing
> instances when touched for other reasons to avoid churn.
One such earlier discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEepm%3D1eA0vsgA7-2oigKzqg10YeXoPWiS-fCuQRDLwwmgMXag%40mail.gmail.com
I personally wouldn't mind if we just flipped to standard types
everywhere, but I guess it wouldn't help with your problem with
extensions on macOS as you probably also want to target released
branches, not just master/17+. But renaming in the back branches
doesn't sound like something we'd do...