Hi, On 2017-12-12 11:01:04 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > Long story short, I don't think anyone cares about this enough to > > spend effort fixing it. I suspect the money data type has very few > > users.
I'm unfortunately not so sure :(. > Somebody did contribute the effort not too long ago to install that > overflow check into cash_in. So maybe somebody will step up and fix > the other money functions. I can't get too excited about it in the > meantime. I can't really either. But I think that kinda suggest we ought to rip that code out in the not too far away future. The background is that I was working on committing the faster (& correct) overflow checks, and wanted to compile postgres with -ftrapv. Some rudimentary cash (as well as pgbench, rel/abstime) fixes were required to make the tests succeed... Greetings, Andres Freund
