Re: generate_series from now to infinity...

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane  wrote:
> "Dickson S. Guedes"  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?

Cheers,
BJ