Re: generate_series from now to infinity... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: generate_series from now to infinity...
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Msg-id 14729.1242531642@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to generate_series from now to infinity...  ("Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net>)
Responses Re: generate_series from now to infinity...  (Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>)
Re: generate_series from now to infinity...  ("Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net>)
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"Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net> writes:
> Is a simple "SELECT generate_series(now(), CAST('infinity'::date AS
> timestamp), interval '1 hour');" working forever, an expected
> behavior?

Uh, what were you expecting it to do?

Actually, I believe it will fail eventually when the repeated additions
overflow ... in 294277 AD.  So you've got about 2 billion timestamp
additions to wait through.
        regards, tom lane


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