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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
index 1277562b794..f450922f26e 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c,v 1.184 2008/01/01 19:45:52 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c,v 1.185 2008/02/17 02:09:28 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -1264,9 +1264,14 @@ TimestampDifferenceExceeds(TimestampTz start_time,
*
* We do not use time_t internally in Postgres, but this is provided for use
* by functions that need to interpret, say, a stat(2) result.
+ *
+ * To avoid having the function's ABI vary depending on the width of time_t,
+ * we declare the argument as pg_time_t, which is cast-compatible with
+ * time_t but always 64 bits wide (unless the platform has no 64-bit type).
+ * This detail should be invisible to callers, at least at source code level.
*/
TimestampTz
-time_t_to_timestamptz(time_t tm)
+time_t_to_timestamptz(pg_time_t tm)
{
TimestampTz result;
@@ -1284,17 +1289,22 @@ time_t_to_timestamptz(time_t tm)
* Convert a TimestampTz to time_t.
*
* This too is just marginally useful, but some places need it.
+ *
+ * To avoid having the function's ABI vary depending on the width of time_t,
+ * we declare the result as pg_time_t, which is cast-compatible with
+ * time_t but always 64 bits wide (unless the platform has no 64-bit type).
+ * This detail should be invisible to callers, at least at source code level.
*/
-time_t
+pg_time_t
timestamptz_to_time_t(TimestampTz t)
{
- time_t result;
+ pg_time_t result;
#ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP
- result = (time_t) (t / USECS_PER_SEC +
+ result = (pg_time_t) (t / USECS_PER_SEC +
((POSTGRES_EPOCH_JDATE - UNIX_EPOCH_JDATE) * SECS_PER_DAY));
#else
- result = (time_t) (t +
+ result = (pg_time_t) (t +
((POSTGRES_EPOCH_JDATE - UNIX_EPOCH_JDATE) * SECS_PER_DAY));
#endif