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

From Dean Rasheed
Subject Re: Wrong results from in_range() tests with infinite offset
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Msg-id CAEZATCVqeHyLHSRdk=9aONBYSNkgaOH+_Wo-NEfMKg0xPmpdpA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Wrong results from in_range() tests with infinite offset  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 03:06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Pushed, but I chickened out of back-patching.  The improvement in what
> happens for finite comparison values seems somewhat counterbalanced by
> the possibility that someone might not like the definition we arrived
> at for infinities.  So, it's not quite an open-and-shut bug fix, so
> I just put it in HEAD (for now anyway).
>

Yeah, that seems fair enough, and it's quite an obscure corner-case
that has gone unnoticed for quite some time.

Regards,
Dean



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