Re: Wrong results from in_range() tests with infinite offset - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Wrong results from in_range() tests with infinite offset
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Msg-id 3506768.1594947597@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Wrong results from in_range() tests with infinite offset  (Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>)
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Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020, 22:50 Tom Lane, <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Actually, after staring at those results awhile longer, I decided
>> they were wrong.  The results shown here seem actually sane ---
>> for instance, -Infinity shouldn't "infinitely precede" itself,
>> I think.  (Maybe if you got solipsistic enough you could argue
>> that that is valid, but it seems pretty bogus.)

> Hmm, that code looks a bit fishy to me, but I really need to think about it
> some more. I'll take another look tomorrow, and maybe it'll become clearer.

It's certainly verbose, so I'd like to find a more concise way to
write the logic.  But the v2 results seem right.

            regards, tom lane



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