fix: Avoid integer overflow in substr()#20199
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Is it better to saturate at i64::MAX or just error out?
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Thanks @neilconway and @Jefffrey
| // HACK: can be simplified if function has specialized | ||
| // implementation for `ScalarValue` (implement without `make_scalar_function()`) | ||
| let avg_prefix_len = start | ||
| let total_prefix_len = start |
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won't using floating point arithmetic be slower? Perhaps we could simply return an error if we got an overflow? Or use saturating_add ?
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Evaluating
SELECT SUBSTR('', 2, 9223372036854775807);yields (in a debug build):Found via fuzzing.
Are these changes tested?
Yes, added a unit test.