Add int2-to-int8 and int8-to-int2 conversion routines. Needed to avoid

breaking existing pg_dump scripts, which try to assign the result of
count(*) to an int2 variable.  catversion bumped.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c
index 41a60615884..b689cb764a4 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c,v 1.34 2001/10/25 05:49:44 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c,v 1.35 2001/10/25 14:10:06 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -698,6 +698,29 @@ int84(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 }
 
 Datum
+int28(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+	int16		val = PG_GETARG_INT16(0);
+
+	PG_RETURN_INT64((int64) val);
+}
+
+Datum
+int82(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
+{
+	int64		val = PG_GETARG_INT64(0);
+	int16		result;
+
+	result = (int16) val;
+
+	/* Test for overflow by reverse-conversion. */
+	if ((int64) result != val)
+		elog(ERROR, "int8 conversion to int2 is out of range");
+
+	PG_RETURN_INT16(result);
+}
+
+Datum
 i8tod(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 {
 	int64		val = PG_GETARG_INT64(0);