Fix overflow when calculating timestamp distance in BRIN

When calculating distances for timestamp values for BRIN minmax-multi
indexes, we need to be careful about overflows for extreme values. If
the value overflows into a negative value, the index may be inefficient.

The new regression test checks this for the timestamp type by adding a
table with enough values to force range compaction/merging. The values
are close to min/max, which means a risk of overflow.

Fixed by converting the int64 values to double first, before calculating
the distance. This prevents the overflow. We may lose some precision, of
course, but that's good enough. In the worst case we build a slightly
less efficient index, but for large distances this won't matter.

This only affects minmax-multi indexes on timestamp columns, with ranges
containing values sufficiently distant to cause an overflow. That seems
like a fairly rare case in practice.

Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.

Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com

Author: tvondra

src/backend/access/brin/brin_minmax_multi.c

@@ -2144,7 +2144,7 @@ brin_minmax_multi_distance_timestamp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	if (TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(dt1) || TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(dt2))
 		PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(0);
 
-	delta = dt2 - dt1;
+	delta = (float8) dt2 - (float8) dt1;
 
 	Assert(delta >= 0);
 

src/test/regress/expected/brin_multi.out

@@ -823,3 +823,18 @@ SELECT COUNT(*) FROM brin_test_multi_2 WHERE a = 'aab32389-22bc-c25a-6f60-6eb525
 
 DROP TABLE brin_test_multi_2;
 RESET enable_seqscan;
+-- test overflows during CREATE INDEX with extreme timestamp values
+CREATE TABLE brin_timestamp_test(a TIMESTAMPTZ);
+SET datestyle TO iso;
+-- values close to timetamp minimum
+INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
+SELECT '4713-01-01 00:00:01 BC'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
+  FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
+-- values close to timetamp maximum
+INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
+SELECT '294276-12-01 00:00:01'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
+  FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
+CREATE INDEX ON brin_timestamp_test USING brin (a timestamptz_minmax_multi_ops) WITH (pages_per_range=1);
+DROP TABLE brin_timestamp_test;
+RESET enable_seqscan;
+RESET datestyle;

src/test/regress/sql/brin_multi.sql

@@ -586,3 +586,24 @@ SELECT COUNT(*) FROM brin_test_multi_2 WHERE a = 'aab32389-22bc-c25a-6f60-6eb525
 
 DROP TABLE brin_test_multi_2;
 RESET enable_seqscan;
+
+-- test overflows during CREATE INDEX with extreme timestamp values
+CREATE TABLE brin_timestamp_test(a TIMESTAMPTZ);
+
+SET datestyle TO iso;
+
+-- values close to timetamp minimum
+INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
+SELECT '4713-01-01 00:00:01 BC'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
+  FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
+
+-- values close to timetamp maximum
+INSERT INTO brin_timestamp_test
+SELECT '294276-12-01 00:00:01'::timestamptz + (i || ' seconds')::interval
+  FROM generate_series(1,30) s(i);
+
+CREATE INDEX ON brin_timestamp_test USING brin (a timestamptz_minmax_multi_ops) WITH (pages_per_range=1);
+DROP TABLE brin_timestamp_test;
+
+RESET enable_seqscan;
+RESET datestyle;