[HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
Is there a reason why the DATE type does not support infinity something like 
the DATE type?

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Re: [HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Lane
Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Is there a reason why the DATE type does not support infinity

Nobody got round to it.  I believe it's listed in the TODO file ...

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:20, Tom Lane wrote:
 Nobody got round to it.  I believe it's listed in the TODO file ...

It's not at [1]. Should someone add it to the TODO?

[1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html

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Re: [HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Lane
Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:20, Tom Lane wrote:
 Nobody got round to it. I believe it's listed in the TODO file ...

 It's not at [1]. Should someone add it to the TODO?

I see

* Dates and Times

o Allow infinite dates and intervals just like infinite timestamps


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Re: [HACKERS] infinity and DATE type

2007-02-21 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Warren Turkal wrote:

 On Thursday 22 February 2007 00:20, Tom Lane wrote:
  Nobody got round to it.  I believe it's listed in the TODO file ...

 It's not at [1]. Should someone add it to the TODO?

 [1]http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html

Yes it is.

Allow infinite dates and intervals just like infinite timestamps

Gavin

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