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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
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.