Re: BUG #18247: Integer overflow leads to negative width

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 5:29 PM PG Bug reporting form <
> noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM t;
>> QUERY PLAN
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Seq Scan on t  (cost=0.00..10.00 rows=1 width=-2113929008)
>> (1 row)

> Can we just error out when an overflow occurs?

Probably better to clamp tuple width estimates to MaxAllocSize.
Anything larger would not correspond to reality anyhow.

            regards, tom lane