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Tom Lane 26a944cf29 Adjust bytea get_bit/set_bit to use int8 not int4 for bit numbering.
Since the existing bit number argument can't exceed INT32_MAX, it's
not possible for these functions to manipulate bits beyond the first
256MB of a bytea value.  Lift that restriction by redeclaring the
bit number arguments as int8 (which requires a catversion bump,
hence is not back-patchable).

The similarly-named functions for bit/varbit don't really have a
problem because we restrict those types to at most VARBITMAXLEN bits;
hence leave them alone.

While here, extend the encode/decode functions in utils/adt/encode.c
to allow dealing with values wider than 1GB.  This is not a live bug
or restriction in current usage, because no input could be more than
1GB, and since none of the encoders can expand a string more than 4X,
the result size couldn't overflow uint32.  But it might be desirable
to support more in future, so make the input length values size_t
and the potential-output-length values uint64.

Also add some test cases to improve the miserable code coverage
of these functions.

Movead Li, editorialized some by me; also reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200312115135445367128@highgo.ca
2020-04-07 15:57:58 -04:00
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src Adjust bytea get_bit/set_bit to use int8 not int4 for bit numbering. 2020-04-07 15:57:58 -04:00
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TODO Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http: 2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00