Re: Can't figure out how to use now() in default for tsrange column (PG 9.2)

At 8:35 PM +0100 16/7/12, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>Even without this quirk, the problem of mapping timestamps to other
>languages data types could be an even stronger design factor. I've
>personally settled for 9999-12-31 which is python's datetime.max, maps
>ok to doubles and won't create problems for almost 8000 years.
>
>
>-- Daniele


Stephane Faroult ('The Art of SQL') says that dates so far in the 
future can throw off query planners. He explains it nicely here: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0WJJXgEFM

Interesting discussion, thanks.

Chris