Limit values of archive_timeout, post_auth_delay, auth_delay.milliseconds.

The previous definitions of these GUC variables allowed them to range
up to INT_MAX, but in point of fact the underlying code would suffer
overflows or other errors with large values.  Reduce the maximum values
to something that won't misbehave.  There's no apparent value in working
harder than this, since very large delays aren't sensible for any of
these.  (Note: the risk with archive_timeout is that if we're late
checking the state, the timestamp difference it's being compared to
might overflow.  So we need some amount of slop; the choice of INT_MAX/2
is arbitrary.)

Per followup investigation of bug #7670.  Although this isn't a very
significant fix, might as well back-patch.

diff --git a/contrib/auth_delay/auth_delay.c b/contrib/auth_delay/auth_delay.c
index 4e0d5959d19ca9852b60386d995b25af41a3ef8d..3131e827b82dd62c38f5bb0a48a74e6fc6b198da 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/auth_delay/auth_delay.c
+++ b/contrib/auth_delay/auth_delay.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ _PG_init(void)
                                                        NULL,
                                                        &auth_delay_milliseconds,
                                                        0,
-                                                       0, INT_MAX,
+                                                       0, INT_MAX / 1000,
                                                        PGC_SIGHUP,
                                                        GUC_UNIT_MS,
                                                        NULL,

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index 54461c830fe7306057e5fa8ecea88e1d4e53c901..81cf136937c1feb5a41f705b8a5c3f412876b585 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
                        GUC_UNIT_S
                },
                &XLogArchiveTimeout,
-               0, 0, INT_MAX,
+               0, 0, INT_MAX / 2,
                NULL, NULL, NULL
        },
        {
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
                        GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE | GUC_UNIT_S
                },
                &PostAuthDelay,
-               0, 0, INT_MAX,
+               0, 0, INT_MAX / 1000000,
                NULL, NULL, NULL
        },
        {