Re: 'Infinity' in date columns? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 'Infinity' in date columns?
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Msg-id 3691.1274070117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to 'Infinity' in date columns?  ("Ken Winter" <ken@sunward.org>)
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"Ken Winter" <ken@sunward.org> writes:
> The documentation at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-datetime.html seems to
> say that the special value 'infinity' ("later than all other time stamps")
> should work for an date-time column, and the type "date" is listed as among
> the date-time data types.
> But I can't get 'infinity' to work for columns of type "date".

You seem to be carefully reading around the middle column in Table 8-13,
which specifically shows that infinity doesn't work for type date.

Now, if you were to update to Postgres 8.4, it *would* work.

            regards, tom lane

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