
Block numbers are 32-bit unsigned integers. Therefore, the smallest SQL integer type that they can fit in is bigint. However, in the pageinspect module, most input and output parameters dealing with block numbers were declared as int. The behavior with block numbers larger than a signed 32-bit integer was therefore dubious. Change these arguments to type bigint and add some more explicit error checking on the block range. (Other contrib modules appear to do this correctly already.) Since we are changing argument types of existing functions, in order to not misbehave if the binary is updated before the extension is updated, we need to create new C symbols for the entry points, similar to how it's done in other extensions as well. Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d8f6bdd536df403b9b33816e9f7e0b9d@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/ See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.
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