Hello, Hackers!
I worked on a patch[1] allows "EXTRACT(epoch FROM
+-Inf::timestamp[tz])" to return "+-Inf::float8".
There is an opposite function "to_timestamp(float8)" which now defined as:
SELECT ('epoch'::timestamptz + $1 * '1 second'::interval)
Since intervals do not support infinity values, it is impossible to do
something like:
SELECT to_timestamp('infinity'::float8);
... which is not good.
Supporting of such converting is in the TODO list[2] (by "converting
between infinity timestamp and float8").
Proposed patch implements it.
There is an other patch in the CF[3] 2016-03 implements checking of
timestamp[tz] for being in allowed range. Since it is wise to set
(fix) the upper boundary of timestamp[tz]s, I've included the file
"src/include/datatype/timestamp.h" from there to check that an input
value and a result are in the allowed range.
There is no changes in a documentation because allowed range is the
same as officially supported[4] (i.e. until 294277 AD).
[1]http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/647d87c56ab6da70adb753c08d7cdf7ee905ea8a
[2]https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Dates_and_Times
[3]https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/540/
[4]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/datatype-datetime.html
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Best regards,
Vitaly Burovoy
