From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: msdnchina@163.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #18034: Accept the spelling "+infinity" in datetime input is not accurate
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:25:51 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <26522.1691636007@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:53:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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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