Re: 'Infinity' in date columns?

Ken Winter wrote:
>     The documentation at
>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-datetime.html
>     seems to say that the special value ‘infinity’ (“later than all
>     other time stamps”) should work for an date-time column, and the
>     type “date” is listed as among the date-time data types.
>
>     But I can’t get ‘infinity’ to work for columns of type “date”.

Shoaib Mir wrote:
> I don't have version 8.3 with me right now but I just gave it a try with
> 8.4 and it gave me the expected output:

As Tom Lane points out, that's a difference between 8.3 and 8.4.

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Lew