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Re: Strange interval arithmetic


  • From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
  • To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
  • Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Strange interval arithmetic
  • Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:27:54 -0700
  • Message-id: <20051127182754(dot)GA64395(at)winnie(dot)fuhr(dot)org>

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:45:18AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> Looks like the value is stuck at 2^31 - 1 seconds:

I see this behavior back to at least 7.3.  I'd guess it's because
strtol() indicates overflow by returning LONG_MAX and setting errno
to ERANGE, but the code doesn't check for that.

-- 
Michael Fuhr



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