> The reason I didn't see it here is that on my platform, the infinity
> timestamp values aren't represented as real IEEE infinities, and so the
> result isn't NAN.
>
> Seems like we could fix this either by forbidding use of real infinity
> for timestamp and float8 values ... probably not workable for float8,
> even if it's okay for timestamp ... or by trying to defend against
> infinity and NAN results in the selectivity subroutines.
Shouldn't infinity be treated similar to NULL. I know they are
different but they are clearly off-the-scale type values. The problem
is that it is type-specific and not general enough for the optimizer.
Tough one.
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