Re: xmlelement AND timestamps.

On 02/13/2017 02:56 PM, Lynn Dobbs wrote:
> I just migrated from 9.2.4 to 9.6.1 and had several user created
> functions fail.
>
> Recreating the failure with "SELECT xmlelement(name foo,
> 'infinity'::timestamp)
> ERROR: timestamp out of range
> DETAIL: XML does not support infinite timestamp values.
>
> I don't find anything in the documentation that explains this. I
> consider this a regression.

All I could find was this thread from 2009:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/41F26B729B014C3E8F20F5B7%40teje

which indicated it was fixed at that time.

>
> I have many tables that have a "starting" and "ending" timestamp that
> default to "-infinity"
> and "infinity" respectively. Any function I have that outputs xml
> containing those columns
> have to have those values cast to text.
>
> Lynn Dobbs
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