On May 16, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> "Dickson S. Guedes" <listas@guedesoft.net> writes:
>>> Is a simple "SELECT generate_series(now(), CAST('infinity'::date AS
>>> timestamp), interval '1 hour');" working forever, an expected
>>> behavior?
>>
>> Uh, what were you expecting it to do?
>
> It appears that any generate_series involving infinity is guaranteed
> to fail.
>
> That being the case, wouldn't it be more useful to throw an error than
> to just keep on running until overflow?
What if it were combined with LIMIT?
...Robert