| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> | 
| Cc: | Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Hou, Zhijie" <houzj(dot)fnst(at)cn(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Improper use about DatumGetInt32 | 
| Date: | 2020-11-25 16:23:20 | 
| Message-ID: | 5cba03cd-cff3-9f81-ba4f-4fd91e08bbce@enterprisedb.com | 
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On 2020-11-02 16:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I have committed 0003.
> 
> For 0001, normal_rand(), I think you should reject negative arguments
> with an error.
I have committed a fix for that.
> For 0002, I think you should change the block number arguments to int8,
> same as other contrib modules do.
Looking further into this, almost all of pageinspect needs to be updated 
to handle block numbers larger than INT_MAX correctly.  Attached is a 
patch for this.  It is meant to work like other contrib modules, such as 
pg_freespace and pg_visibility.  I haven't tested this much yet.
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size | 
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| 0001-pageinspect-Change-block-number-arguments-to-bigint.patch | text/plain | 13.5 KB | 
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