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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Chris Bartlett <c(dot)bartlett(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Alban Hertroys <haramrae(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to use now() in default for tsrange column (PG 9.2)
Date: 2012-07-17 02:32:11
Message-ID: 12232.1342492331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> This suggests me that the PG histogram doesn't count the occurrence
> into bins of the same size over the domain, but instead records the
> boundaries on the domain of bins containing the same amount of data.

Right. I don't believe the PG planner has any issues with infinite
dates (and if you do find one, we'll do our best to fix it). But the
point that client-side code might not cope with infinite dates is
very valid, and that's not something that we can undertake to fix
if you run into it.

regards, tom lane

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