Re: Refactoring: Use soft error reporting for *_opt_overflow functions of date/timestamp

amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>

From: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-01T12:01:43Z
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  1. Update some timestamp[tz] functions to use soft-error reporting

  2. Switch some date/timestamp functions to use the soft error reporting

  3. Switch some numeric-related functions to use soft error reporting

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 09:46:43AM +0530, Amul Sul wrote:
> > I have attached patch 0002 that renames it. I also updated patch 0001
> > to accommodate Amit's comment suggestions.
>
> Thanks, applied this one after more tweaks.  Regarding 0002, just
> doing a renaming makes me a bit uncomfortable after a second look.
> Another way to look at the problem while being consistent would be to
> convert date2timestamp_no_overflow() to use soft error reports,
> requiring its caller in selfuncs.c to use an error context node.  I
> cannot get really excited at the end just for the sake of the planner
> stats.
>

Understood. Thanks for committing the patch.

> There were two more functions that btree_gin.c is pointing at that
> could to the switch: timestamp->timestamptz and its opposite.  This
> also shaves some code, which is nice.  Please see the attached.

Yes, the patch looks good to me.

Regards,
Amul