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From Andres Freund
Subject Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete
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Msg-id 20171212215022.k47fnly4ivsxswne@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: money type's overflow handling is woefully incomplete  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2017-12-12 16:47:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Some parts at least (input & output), I think it's easy enough to fix
those up.


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

I'm actually about to send a patch doing so, that code is one mess WRT
overflow handling.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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