Re: 'infinity' in GiST index

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Dave Held wrote:

>
>> but I doubt GiST will be happy if we make the datatype behave
>> that way...
>
> I guess it depends on why you want to take the difference.  If
> you want to take some measure of distance, it might be useful
> to say that all infinite values of the same sign are at 0 distance
> from each other, in which case you would say that +w - +w = 0.
> Probably infinities of opposite signs should just be w apart
> (which is also mathematically consistent).

actually, it's timestamp_mi function rise the error which prevent
GiST index creation.

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