Corey Huinker writes:
>> Less sure about that. ISTM the reason that the previous proposal failed
>> was that it introduced too much ambiguity about how to resolve
>> unknown-type arguments. Wouldn't the same problems arise here?
> By adding a different function, there is no prior behavior to wo
>
> Less sure about that. ISTM the reason that the previous proposal failed
> was that it introduced too much ambiguity about how to resolve
> unknown-type arguments. Wouldn't the same problems arise here?
>
If I recall, the problem was that the lack of a date-specific
generate_series function w
Corey Huinker writes:
> The infinite-upper-bound-withlimit-pushdown counterexample makes sense, but
> seems like we're using generate_series() only because we lack a function
> that generates a series of N elements, without a specified upper bound,
> something like
> generate_finite_series(
On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 12:02 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Corey Huinker writes:
> > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jeff Janes wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:43 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Oh --- looks like numeric generate_series() already throws error for
> >>> this, so we should just make the ti
Corey Huinker writes:
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jeff Janes wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:43 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Oh --- looks like numeric generate_series() already throws error for
>>> this, so we should just make the timestamp variants do the same.
> This came up once before
>
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:01 PM Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:43 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>> > it's true that infinities as generate_series endpoints are going
>> > to work pretty oddly, so I agree with the idea of forbidding 'em.
>>
>> > Numeric has infinity as of late, s
Jeff Janes writes:
> The regression test you added for this change causes an infinite loop when
> run against an unpatched server with --install-check. That is a bit
> unpleasant. Is there something we can and should do about that? I was
> expecting regression test failures of course but not an
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:43 PM Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > it's true that infinities as generate_series endpoints are going
> > to work pretty oddly, so I agree with the idea of forbidding 'em.
>
> > Numeric has infinity as of late, so the numeric variant would
> > need to do this too.
>
> Oh
