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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Dave Cramer <[email protected]>
To: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Patch for bind message to clarify signedness of parameters and result column format codes
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:16:28 +0200
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On 09.06.26 13:51, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Currently we don't say whether the number of parameters is signed or 
> unsigned. Same with results

Instead of repeating this with every message, we should clarify this in 
the section "Message Data Types".

I had always assumed that a type designation like Int16 or Int32 is 
signed, because of how they look like C types.  But on the other hand, 
the POSIX functions to convert between host and network order only deal 
with unsigned types.  So it's not obvious either way.

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