Re: BUG #18034: Accept the spelling "+infinity" in datetime input is not accurate

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:53:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > We call our timestamp type datetime in some cases, e.g.:
> > ...
> > I see it in a few other places. Should we rename it other places too?
> > I thought datetime was just a short-hand for our date-time types.
>
> I don't see much reason to change anything here. "Datetime" is not
> a perfectly strict classification, eg it might or might not include
> "interval" depending on context, and I don't want to try to make
> that exact.
>
> A more specific release note entry could be "Accept the spelling
> '+infinity' for datetime types that accept infinity"; but I'm not
> sure it's worth the extra verbiage.

Yeah, that was my analysis too.

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