Re: log_rotation_age integer overflow display quirk - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: log_rotation_age integer overflow display quirk
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Msg-id 14536.1215373802@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: log_rotation_age integer overflow display quirk  (Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>)
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Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> --On Freitag, Juli 04, 2008 11:31:07 +0200 Stefan Kaltenbrunner 
> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
>> I just noticed that setting log_rotation_age to a value larger than 24
>> days results in rather weird output (I have not actually tested yet if
>> that affects the functionality too or just the output):

> This seems to be a bug in _ShowOption(), where the corresponding value is 
> converted into milliseconds to get the biggest possible time unit to 
> display. This overflows the result variable (which is declared as int), 
> causing this strange output.

Yup --- fixed by using int64 arithmetic for the units conversion.
        regards, tom lane


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