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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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 --- looks like numeric generate_series() already throws error for
this, so we should just make the timestamp variants do the same.

			regards, tom lane