From: . <@babolo.ru>
To: creid <creid@netbcg.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: LIBPQ Question
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 03:38:09 +0300 (MSK)
Message-ID: <1067215089.757529.1657.nullmailer@cicuta.babolo.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ILECJKPFOLBAGINIFFFBMECECAAA.creid@netbcg.com>
> Problem: Assigning a COUNT(*) result into an integer variable in my C
> program consistently fails except when I assign the same result to a char
> variable. I can only assume that the internal data type the COUNT function
> uses is integer.
>
> Can anyone help put me in the proper mindset so I may deal with this,
> seemingly simple issue, to resolution.
>
> I need the integer result to to help me satisfy a dynamic memory
> requirement... COUNT(*) result will tell me how many rows of data I need to
> malloc and I cannot perform a math operation on a char variable.
As far as I remember count() has bigint result
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