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.
Branch
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REL8_2_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1fa37ac25d6aa26443e47f96aafe87c3339ebc18
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/date.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c | 3 +--
src/include/utils/date.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)