On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:43 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> I wrote: >> > it's true that infinities as generate_series endpoints are going >> > to work pretty oddly, so I agree with the idea of forbidding 'em. >> >> > Numeric has infinity as of late, so the numeric variant would >> > need to do this too. >> >> Oh --- looks like numeric generate_series() already throws error for >> this, so we should just make the timestamp variants do the same. >> > > The regression test you added for this change causes an infinite loop when > run against an unpatched server with --install-check. That is a bit > unpleasant. Is there something we can and should do about that? I was > expecting regression test failures of course but not an infinite loop > leading towards disk exhaustion. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > This came up once before https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQUuUh_W3s55eSiMnt901Ud3meF7f_96yPkKcqfd1ZaMg%40mail.gmail.com
