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authorTom Lane2010-12-29 03:49:57 +0000
committerTom Lane2010-12-29 03:49:57 +0000
commitf2ba1e994c4d17dc3d4b8d48d3933c96d09127e1 (patch)
treed2a91f27c1537077ff456f315444b3aa20a0462a /src/backend/access/gist/gistutil.c
parent31d2efaef507f280f4df895e1730a9ec8c31aa12 (diff)
Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.
The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do. However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity. Fortunately, what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8) value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to produce a sane answer. All we need is a code path that doesn't try to force the result into int64. Per trouble report from David Rericha. Back-patch to all supported versions. Although this is surely a corner case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
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