Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: d5b2587c20854044277c9616b8582b5f1f19d197
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-12-29T03:50:30Z
Releases: 8.4.7
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.

Files

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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