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From Oleg Bartunov
Subject 'infinity' in GiST index
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.62.0505050801440.18597@ra.sai.msu.su
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Responses Re: 'infinity' in GiST index  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi there,

there was complain about problem with creating GiST index if
timestamp column contains 'infinity' value. The problem is indeed
exists and I'd like to have it fixed, but we have no idea 
how to handle it in GiST, actually in penalty function.
Any thoughts ?
    Regards,        Oleg
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