Re: Regression tests failing on abstime due to test date being before 'current'

We have fixed this in the current source and the fix will be in 7.2.  We
missed this until it was too late.


> From: expected/abstime.out
>
> SELECT '' AS six, ABSTIME_TBL.*
>    WHERE ABSTIME_TBL.f1 < abstime 'Jun 30, 2001';
>  six |              f1
> -----+------------------------------
>      | Sun Jan 14 03:14:21 1973 PST
>      | Mon May 01 00:30:30 1995 PDT
>      | epoch
>      | current
>      | -infinity
>      | Sat May 10 23:59:12 1947 PST
> (6 rows)
>
> ---
> In my system current is now after Jun 30 and so doesn't appear. If the test
> passes it's actually a huge problem ;).
>
> Is it necessary to pick dates so close in the "future" when setting up the
> test? How about setting such dates to some date when the next version is
> likely to be out :). Then at least if it fails it's a convenient time to
> ask newbies to upgrade to 7.X or even 8.
>
> It's just a very minor issue, but this has happened before - one release
> had the testdate < Y2K.
>
> Cheerio,
> Link.
>
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