Re: Query generates infinite loop

Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> st 20. 4. 2022 v 18:42 odesílatel Richard Wesley <richard(at)duckdblabs(dot)com>
> napsal:
>> select COUNT(*) FROM generate_series('-infinity'::TIMESTAMP, 'epoch'::TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL '1 DAY');
>>
>> This seems like a DoS great attack, so we are disallowing infinities as
>> bounds for both table and scalar series generation. As an upper bound, it
>> eventually gives an error, so it seems there is not much utility anyway.

> There are more ways to achieve the same effect. The protection is safe
> setting of temp_file_limit

Well, there are any number of ways to DOS a database you can issue
arbitrary queries to. For instance, cross joining a number of very
large tables. So I'm not excited about that aspect of it. Still,
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.

I think we can allow infinity as the step, though.

regards, tom lane