On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "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?
It appears that any generate_series involving infinity is guaranteed to fail.
That being the case, wouldn't it be more useful to throw an error than
to just keep on running until overflow?
Cheers,
BJ
