Sure,
I'm attaching v2 of the patch with "result" renamed to "week".
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Sergey
On 7/12/25 18:15, Tom Lane wrote:
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<s.fukanchik@postgrespro.ru>writes:
>> Hi PG hackers,
>> I found suspicious use of float8 in date2isoweek() and date2isoyear(). In both
>> cases float8 is only used for storing the value, while the entire calculation
>> on the right happens in integers:
>> float8 result = (dayn - (day4 - day0)) / 7 + 1;
>> At the end date2isoweek() returns `result' converted back to int:
>> return (int) result;
>> float8 here is confusing and a bit slow.
> I looked into our git history to try to find out why it's like this.
> The answer seems to be that commit dffd8cac3 created date2isoweek()
> by splitting out pre-existing code that had been in timestamp_part().
> In that context the code had been using a float8 "result" variable
> that was shared with other switch cases, and that variable's type
> was just blindly copied into date2isoweek(). Then 1c757c49f again
> copied-and-pasted while creating date2isoyear().
>
> I agree with getting rid of the unnecessary usage of float8 here,
> but there's another aspect that's bugging me: "result" is a totally
> misleading variable name in date2isoyear(), because it's *not*
> the function's result. I'm inclined to rename it to "week", and
> then to keep these functions looking as parallel as possible,
> I'd probably do the same in date2isoweek().
>
>> I think there is no need in adding an extra test case here, because
>> date2isoweek and date2isoyear are covered by three regression tests:
> Agreed, the code coverage report shows these are covered.
>
> regards, tom lane