Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Sep21, 2011, at 19:02 , Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 13:24 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
>> I've thought about this some more, and came to realize that the question
>> here really is whether
>> 
>>  floatrange(0, 'Infinity'::float, '[)')
>> 
>> and
>> 
>>  floatrange(0, NULL, '[)')
>> 
>> are the same thing or not.
> 
> The unbounded side of a range is never equal to a value in the data
> type's domain, so no, it's not the same.
> 
> I think that we pretty much settled on just using an empty string for
> infinity in the other thread, right? So that makes this a non-issue.

Agreed.

best regards,
Florian Pflug