Re: custom function for converting human readable sizes to bytes

From: "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: custom function for converting human readable sizes to bytes
Date: 2016-01-04 16:48:21
Message-ID: CACACo5QrNisiLBG8kC_fAVdJ82sF7J4nxu+x8S2ZDRW94HdSqQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > [ new patch ]
>
> + case '-':
> + ereport(ERROR,
> + (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
> + errmsg("size cannot be negative")));
>
> Why not? I bet if you copy any - sign to the buffer, this will Just Work.
>

I'm also inclined on dropping that explicit check for empty string below
and let numeric_in() error out on that. Does this look OK, or can it
confuse someone:

postgres=# select pg_size_bytes('');
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: ""

?

+ if ( conv->base_unit == GUC_UNIT_KB &&
>

Between "(" and "conv->..." I believe.

---
Alex

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