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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: libq API question
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:39:02 -0700
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On Thursday, March 12, 2026, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, ALL,
>
> In the docs I see the following:
>
> [quote]
>
> PGresult *PQexecParams(PGconn *conn,
>                        const char *command,
>                        int nParams,
>                        const Oid *paramTypes,
>                        const char * const *paramValues,
>                        const int *paramLengths,
>                        const int *paramFormats,
>                        int resultFormat);
> [/quote]
>
> Is there a reason why the parameters are int and not unsigned int?
>

Unsigned ints are, I believe, less performant, and losing half the value
space is immaterial here.

David J.

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