Uniformly expose unsigned quantities using the next-wider signed
integer type (since we have no unsigned types at the SQL level).
At the SQL level, this results a change to report itemoffset as
int4 rather than int2. Also at the SQL level, report one value
that is an OID as type oid. Under the hood, uniformly use macros
that match the SQL output type as to both width and signedness.
Commit 08bf6e5295 seems not to have
used the correct *GetDatum and PG_GETARG_* macros for the SQL types
in some cases, and some of the SQL types seem to have been poorly
chosen, too. Try to fix it. I'm not sure if this is the reason
why the buildfarm is currently unhappy with this code, but it
seems like a good place to start.
Buildfarm unhappiness reported by Tom Lane.
Patch by Jesper Pedersen and Ashutosh Sharma, with some error handling
improvements by me. Tests from Peter Eisentraut. Reviewed by Álvaro
Herrera, Michael Paquier, Jesper Pedersen, Jeff Janes, Peter
Eisentraut, Amit Kapila, Mithun Cy, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e2ac6c58-b93f-9dd9-f4e6-d6d30add7fdf@redhat.com
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas