Re: Issues with generate_series using integer boundaries

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Cc: PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Issues with generate_series using integer boundaries
Date: 2011-02-01 01:05:25
Message-ID: 12064.1296522325@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> writes:
> I've noticed that if I try to use generate_series to include the upper
> boundary of int4, it never returns:

I'll bet it's testing "currval > bound" without considering the
possibility that incrementing currval caused an overflow wraparound.
We fixed a similar problem years ago in plpgsql FOR-loops...

regards, tom lane

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