Hi, On Friday 29 September 2006 11:01, km wrote: | i am compiling postgresql 8.1.4 on AMB x86_64 platform. | configure runs fine but shows output (snippet shown) as follows: | ... | checking for int8... no | checking for uint8... no | checking for int64... no | checking for uint64... no I'd say, this is expected output from configure. Configure is just a mechanism to help constructing an abstraction for different types of OS (i.e. things like "can we use this C type? Do we need to use another type instead?"). [...] | how can i add int8,uint8,int64 and uint64 functionality into postgres ? are | there any special flags that i am missing ? The "smallint", "integer" and "bigint" types are available regardless of that output from configure. Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----