On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:27:54AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:45:18AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> > Looks like the value is stuck at 2^31 - 1 seconds:
>
> I see this behavior back to at least 7.3. I'd guess it's because
> strtol() indicates overflow by returning LONG_MAX and setting errno
> to ERANGE, but the code doesn't check for that.
Is this worth looking at for the upcoming dot releases? It's
apparently a longstanding behavior that almost nobody encounters,
yet knowingly not addressing it seems a bit MySQLish ;-) Here's
the start of the thread for anybody who missed it:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg01385.php
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Michael Fuhr
