| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | 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 22:57:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20051130225742.GA27631@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 05:49:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> The SUS saith
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/strtol.html
>
> The strtol() function will not change the setting of errno if
> successful.
>
> Perhaps more to the point, we've been doing it that way (errno test
> only) for many years without complaints. Adding a test on the return
> value is venturing into less charted waters.
Good, I'll stick with just the ERANGE check then.
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Michael Fuhr
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