Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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| src/backend/utils/adt/date.c | modified | +33 −0 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c | modified | +1 −2 |
| src/include/utils/date.h | modified | +2 −0 |