From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: barlone@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #17074: PQsocket() truncate hande on win64
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:19:11 -0400
Message-ID: <153442.1624889951@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17074-b064bbbb12dc6cf6@postgresql.org>
References: <17074-b064bbbb12dc6cf6@postgresql.org>
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> Function PQsocket from libpq returns int. But on win64, int type has 32
> bits, and socket handle has 64 bits.
> PQsocket must return а different type, may be ptrdiff_t.
We can't just redefine the result type of PQsocket without
causing API/ABI breakage everywhere.
Perhaps it would be worth inventing a Windows-only function that
returns a connection's socket handle. There hasn't been much
demand for that though.
regards, tom lane
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