JDBC/TIMESTAMP/infnity question

Working with the JDBC driver and PostgreSQL TIMESAMP types, I've
observed the following behavior, which is odd to me:

getString('infinity'::timestamp) = "infinity"
getString('-infinity'::timestamp) = "-infinity"
getTimestamp('infinity'::timestamp) = 292278994-08-16 18:00:00.0
getTimestamp('-infinity'::timestamp) = 292269055-12-02 18:00:00.0

As best as my research can tell, the java.sql.Timestamp type doesn't
have any concept of infinity/-infinity.  But I'm surprised -infinity
is converted into a date far in the future instead of something in the
past.

Looking through the source code, it looks like the driver is trying to
do the best it can by picking a large date in the past ... does anyone
know why it's ending up in the future?

Bill Moran, System Architect
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http://www.intermedix.com

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