Improve TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds to cope with overflow sanely.

We'd like to use TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds with the stop_time
possibly being TIMESTAMP_INFINITY, but up to now it's disclaimed
responsibility for overflow cases.  Define it to clamp its output to
the range [0, INT_MAX], handling overflow correctly.  (INT_MAX rather
than LONG_MAX seems appropriate, because the function is already
described as being intended for calculating wait times for WaitLatch
et al, and that infrastructure only handles waits up to INT_MAX.
Also, this choice gets rid of cross-platform behavioral differences.)

Having done that, we can replace some ad-hoc code in walreceiver.c
with a simple call to TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds.

While at it, fix some buglets in existing callers of
TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds: basebackup_copy.c had not read the
memo about TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds never returning a negative
value, and postmaster.c had not read the memo about Min() and Max()
being macros with multiple-evaluation hazards.  Neither of these
quite seem worth back-patching.

Patch by me; thanks to Nathan Bossart for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3126727.1674759248@sss.pgh.pa.us

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
index 5b775cf7d06..62fba5fceed 100644
--- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
+++ b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
@@ -1670,11 +1670,12 @@ DetermineSleepTime(void)
 
 	if (next_wakeup != 0)
 	{
-		/* Ensure we don't exceed one minute, or go under 0. */
-		return Max(0,
-				   Min(60 * 1000,
-					   TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds(GetCurrentTimestamp(),
-													   next_wakeup)));
+		int			ms;
+
+		/* result of TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds is in [0, INT_MAX] */
+		ms = (int) TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds(GetCurrentTimestamp(),
+												   next_wakeup);
+		return Min(60 * 1000, ms);
 	}
 
 	return 60 * 1000;