Re: Fix overflow in DecodeInterval

Joseph Koshakow <koshy44@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 3:08 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I think it's not, at least not for the interesting range of possible
>> values in this code.  Given that abs(frac) < 1 to start with, the
>> abs value of usec can't exceed the value of scale, which is at most
>> USECS_PER_DAY so it's at most 37 or so bits, which is well within
>> the exact range for any sane implementation of double.  It would
>> take a very poor floating-point implementation to not get the right
>> answer here.  (And we're largely assuming IEEE-compliant floats these
>> days.)

> Ah, I see. That makes sense to me.

Cool.  I've pushed the patch.

			regards, tom lane