Re: [HACKERS] log_rotation_age integer overflow display quirk

Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> --On Freitag, Juli 04, 2008 11:31:07 +0200 Stefan Kaltenbrunner
> <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
>> I just noticed that setting log_rotation_age to a value larger than 24
>> days results in rather weird output (I have not actually tested yet if
>> that affects the functionality too or just the output):

> This seems to be a bug in _ShowOption(), where the corresponding value is
> converted into milliseconds to get the biggest possible time unit to
> display. This overflows the result variable (which is declared as int),
> causing this strange output.

Yup --- fixed by using int64 arithmetic for the units conversion.

regards, tom lane

--
Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers