Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Long story short, I don't think anyone cares about this enough to
>>> spend effort fixing it.  I suspect the money data type has very few
>>> users.

> I'm unfortunately not so sure :(.

There seem to be enough of them that we get pushback anytime somebody
suggests removing the type.

> The background is that I was working on committing the faster (&
> correct) overflow checks, and wanted to compile postgres with -ftrapv.
> Some rudimentary cash (as well as pgbench, rel/abstime) fixes were
> required to make the tests succeed...

Really?  We've got test cases that intentionally exercise overflow
in the money code?  I think we could just drop such tests, until
such time as someone fixes the issue.

(OTOH, I bet we could drop reltime/abstime without too many complaints.
Y2038 is coming.)

            regards, tom lane