On Sun, 6 Sept 2026 at 05:01, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> * In the avg_accum functions, we can argue about how likely it
> is that we'd reach overflow of the "sum" fields, but it is completely
> insane to expend cycles and code complexity to check for overflow of
> the "count" fields.  If you can reach 2^63 by repeated addition of 1
> within the lifetime of a PG database, then we have got far worse
> problems, eg with WAL LSN overflow.

I thought the same thing and wondered where that came from. On looking
at int8inc(), I saw there's a similar check, which seems equally
unlikely to hit, so I didn't mention it.

David


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