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Re: [HACKERS] Issues with generate_series using integer boundaries

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On 17 June 2011 04:44, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Thom Brown <thom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 9 February 2011 02:11, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Quite right, but the commitfest manager isn't meant to be a substitute for
>>>> one. Bug fixes aren't subject to the same restrictions of feature changes.
>>>
>>> Another option would be to add this here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.1_Open_Items
>>
>> I've removed it from the commitfest because it really doesn't belong
>> there, and I've added it to the open items list.
>
> So, I finally got around to look at this, and I think there is a
> simpler solution.  When an overflow occurs while calculating the next
> value, that just means that the value we're about to return is the
> last one that should be generated.  So we just need to frob the
> context state so that the next call will decide we're done.  There are
> any of number of ways to do that; I just picked what looked like the
> easiest one.

I knew there'd be a much simpler way of solving this.  Works for me.

Thanks Robert.

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