Re: "long" type is not appropriate for counting tuples

On 2019-05-22 17:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't really see how controlling snprintf is enough to get somewhere
> on this.  Sure we could invent some new always-64-bit length modifier
> and teach snprintf.c about it, but none of the other tools we use
> would know about it.  I don't want to give up compiler cross-checking
> of printf formats, do you?

Could we define int64 to be long long int on all platforms and just
always use %lld?

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