As usual, it is better with the attachement. Sorry for the noise.
>>> Yep, but ISTM that it is down to 32 bits,
>>
>> Only on 32-bit-long machines, which are a dwindling minority (except
>> for Windows, which I don't really care about).
>>
>>> So the third short is now always 0. Hmmm. I'll propose another option over
>>> the week-end.
>>
>> I suppose we could put pg_strtouint64 somewhere where pgbench can use it,
>> but TBH I don't think it's worth the trouble. The set of people using
>> the --random-seed=int option at all is darn near empty, I suspect,
>> and the documentation only says you can write an int there.
>
> Although I agree it is not worth a lot of trouble, and even if I don't do
> Windows, I think it valuable that the behavior is the same on all platform.
> The attached match shares pg_str2*int64 functions between frontend and
> backend by moving them to "common/", which avoids some code duplication.
>
> This is more refactoring, and it fixes the behavior change on 32 bit
> architectures.
>
>
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Fabien.