Re: Problem with GIST-index and timestamps

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Sebastian B?ck wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i wanted to define and GIST-index on a table with a timestamp-column
>> containing 'infinity' values, and it throws the following error:
>>
>> ERROR:  cannot subtract infinite timestamps
>>
>> Is this a known limitation?
>
>
> I don't know.

Ok, so let me ask wether it's a bug or not.

>
>> How can i avoid or circumvent this?
>
>
> partial index should works

Sure they do, but they're not quite useful in my situation.

Thanks

Sebastian