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Tom Lane authored
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
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