Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Accept and output '-Infinity' as well as 'Infinity', per long-ago
>> suggestion from Ross Reedstrom. Still needs work to make those symbols
>> convert to actual IEEE infinities (on machines where such things exist).
> #ifdef INFINITY
> val = INFINITY;
> #else
> elog?
> #endif
Else use HUGE_VAL, as the code does now, I would think. But I just
sent a message to Ross Reedstrom and pghackers to reopen that
discussion; let's pick it up there.
regards, tom lane