summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/timezone
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorTom Lane2014-07-22 02:41:36 +0000
committerTom Lane2014-07-22 02:41:36 +0000
commit6e5a39c9e6e17c55570e246373c55f3896f52e5e (patch)
tree3105c257401064ee5f8c96aa437b4e2f5e95b964 /src/timezone
parent391aa8aac11fe78f3b2f5743b56e78b0ad6a5d84 (diff)
Reject out-of-range numeric timezone specifications.
In commit 631dc390f49909a5c8ebd6002cfb2bcee5415a9d, we started to handle simple numeric timezone offsets via the zic library instead of the old CTimeZone/HasCTZSet kluge. However, we overlooked the fact that the zic code will reject UTC offsets exceeding a week (which seems a bit arbitrary, but not because it's too tight ...). This led to possibly setting session_timezone to NULL, which results in crashes in most timezone-related operations as of 9.4, and crashes in a small number of places even before that. So check for NULL return from pg_tzset_offset() and report an appropriate error message. Per bug #11014 from Duncan Gillis. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous patch. (Unfortunately, as of today that no longer includes 8.4.)
Diffstat (limited to 'src/timezone')
-rw-r--r--src/timezone/pgtz.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/timezone/pgtz.c b/src/timezone/pgtz.c
index 5c28c5c483d..de1832ab6d2 100644
--- a/src/timezone/pgtz.c
+++ b/src/timezone/pgtz.c
@@ -1333,6 +1333,9 @@ pg_tzset(const char *name)
* The GMT offset is specified in seconds, positive values meaning west of
* Greenwich (ie, POSIX not ISO sign convention). However, we use ISO
* sign convention in the displayable abbreviation for the zone.
+ *
+ * Caution: this can fail (return NULL) if the specified offset is outside
+ * the range allowed by the zic library.
*/
pg_tz *
pg_tzset_offset(long gmtoffset)