On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 01:23:41PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Can we also use TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds()? It knows about
> rounding up for WaitLatch().
I think we might risk overflowing "long" when all the wakeup times are
DT_NOEND:
* This is typically used to calculate a wait timeout for WaitLatch()
* or a related function. The choice of "long" as the result type
* is to harmonize with that. It is caller's responsibility that the
* input timestamps not be so far apart as to risk overflow of "long"
* (which'd happen at about 25 days on machines with 32-bit "long").
Maybe we can adjust that function or create a new one to deal with this.
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