Bug #501: plpgsql, date data type and time change

Eric Prevost-Dansereau (eric(at)esc(dot)rosemere(dot)qc(dot)ca) reports a bug with a severity of 2
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Short Description
plpgsql, date data type and time change

Long Description
This weekend (october 28th, 2001), we went back to standard time.

When I call my function named 'amende' (the code is below), with dates before and after october 28th (ex: amende('2001-10-27','2001-10-28'), I get the following message:

ERROR: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc(84)

But if I call amende('2001-07-01','2001-07-02') or amende('2001-07-01','2005-12-31'), no problem.

The problem seems to be in the WHILE loop, but I can't figure what's wrong.

This function is used to calculate the fine owed between two dates in a school library system.

Table joursSemFermes lists closed day of week, and yable joursermes lists dates when the library is closed. We don't charge a fine when the library is closed.
Table parametres has only one record. This record holds system wide settings, like fine rate, max number of books a student can have,...

Thank you.

Sample Code
CREATE FUNCTION "amende" (date,date) RETURNS real AS 'DECLARE
dateRetour alias for $1;
dateRemise alias for $2;
dateJour date;
jourSem int2;

nbJours int4;
nb_semaine int4;
nb_joursRestants int2;
nb_joursFermes int4;
buffer text;
taux float4;
BEGIN
IF dateRetour < current_date THEN
-- Trouver le taux d''amende
select tauxamende INTO taux from parametres;
--Si le taux d''amende est null, on dclanche une erreur
IF taux IS NULL THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION ''Un taux d''''amende doit tre spcifi dans la table PARAMETRES'';
END IF;
--Charger la date du jour dans dateRemise
IF dateRemise = ''2000-01-01 BC''::date THEN
SELECT date(now()) into dateRemise;
END IF;

--Trouver le nombre de semaine entre dateRetour et dateRemise
select int4div(dateRemise - dateRetour,7), int4mod(dateRemise - dateRetour,7) INTO nb_semaine,nb_joursRestants;
nbJours:= (nb_semaine * 7) + nb_joursRestants;

--Dterminer le nombre de jours ferms
--Jours de la semaine ferms
SELECT count(dow)*7 INTO nb_joursFermes FROM joursSemFermes;
nbJours:=nbJours-nb_joursFermes;
--Dates fermes
SELECT count(ferme) INTO nb_joursFermes from joursfermes WHERE ferme BETWEEN dateRetour and dateRemise;
nbJours:=nbJours-nb_joursFermes;

--Vrifier les jours restants
dateJour:=dateRemise - nb_joursRestants +1;
WHILE (dateJour <= dateRemise) LOOP
SELECT date_part(''dow'',dateJour) into jourSem;
SELECT ''texte''::text INTO buffer
WHERE jourSem IN (select dow from joursSemFermes);
IF FOUND THEN
nbJours:=nbJours-1;
END IF;
--Incrmenter la date de 1 jour
select date(dateJour + ''1 day''::interval) into dateJour;
END LOOP;
RETURN round(nbJours::float4 * taux,2)::float4;
ELSE
RETURN 0::float4;
END IF;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

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