| From: | Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc(at)mega-bucks(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: infinity as a date |
| Date: | 2002-12-12 06:42:02 |
| Message-ID: | 3DF82FBA.5000107@mega-bucks.co.jp |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Purely historical, I'd imagine.
Fair enough.
> If you are sufficiently annoyed, please submit patches to make DATE
> treat MAXINT and MININT as +infinity and -infinity instead of normal
> dates. I would expect we'd accept such a patch.
I am not annoyed, just curious. And I would love to submit patches but I
am not up to it. My programming skills are only slightly better than
that of a highly trained monkey ... But when I do feel proficient enough
postgres is definitely the open-source project I would most like to
contribute to.
Jc
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