Re: Strange interval arithmetic

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange interval arithmetic
Date: 2005-11-30 22:18:23
Message-ID: 20051130221823.GA27181@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:06:42PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hmm, why not check both the return value _and_ errno:
>
> val = strtol(field[i], &cp, 10);
> if (val == LONG_MAX && errno == ERANGE)
> return DTERR_FIELD_OVERFLOW;

I usually check both in my own code but I noticed several places
where PostgreSQL doesn't, so I kept that style. I'll check both
if that's preferred.

--
Michael Fuhr

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