pgsql: seg: Fix seg_out() to preserve the upper boundary's certainty in

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)iki(dot)fi>
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Subject: pgsql: seg: Fix seg_out() to preserve the upper boundary's certainty in
Date: 2026-06-11 09:43:56
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seg: Fix seg_out() to preserve the upper boundary's certainty indicator

When printing the upper boundary of a seg interval, seg_out() decided
whether to emit the certainty indicator ('<', '>' or '~') by testing the
upper indicator (u_ext) for '<' and '>', but mistakenly tested the lower
indicator (l_ext) for '~'. This is a copy-and-paste slip from the
symmetric code that prints the lower boundary a few lines above.

The consequences for valid input were:

* A '~' on the upper boundary was dropped on output, e.g.
'1.5 .. ~2.5'::seg printed as '1.5 .. 2.5'.

* When the lower boundary carried '~' but the upper boundary had no
indicator, the wrong test matched and sprintf(p, "%c", seg->u_ext)
wrote a NUL byte (u_ext == '\0'), which truncated the result string
and silently lost the entire upper boundary, e.g.
'~6.5 .. 8.5'::seg printed as '~6.5 .. '.

Certainty indicators are documented to be preserved on output (they are
ignored by the operators, but kept as comments), so this broke the
input/output round-trip for the affected values.

The bug has existed since seg was added. It went unnoticed because the
existing regression tests only exercised certainty indicators on
single-point segs, which are printed by a different branch of seg_out().
Add tests that place indicators on both boundaries of an interval.

Author: Ewan Young <kdbase(dot)hack(at)gmail(dot)com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAON2xHPYeRRCEVAv8XfE18KsEsEHCiYcJ5fOsoxFuMEfpxF1=g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Branch
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REL_18_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0004cab4dc60577779d97a8f1a175b6dd07dc223

Modified Files
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contrib/seg/expected/seg.out | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
contrib/seg/seg.c | 2 +-
contrib/seg/sql/seg.sql | 11 ++++++++++-
3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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