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Tom Lane authored
Many situations where the offset is infinity were not handled sanely. We should generally allow the val versus base +/- offset comparison to proceed according to the normal rules of IEEE arithmetic; however, we must do something special for the corner cases where base +/- offset would produce NaN due to subtracting two like-signed infinities. That corresponds to asking which values infinitely precede +inf or infinitely follow -inf, which should certainly be true of any finite value or of the opposite-signed infinity. After some discussion it seems that the best decision is to make it true of the same-signed infinity as well, ie, just return constant TRUE if the calculation would produce a NaN. (We could write this with a bit less code by subtracting anyway, and then checking for a NaN result. However, I prefer this formulation because it'll be easier to transpose into numeric.c.) Although this seems like clearly a bug fix with respect to finite values, it is less obviously correct for infinite values. Between that and the fact that the whole issue only arises for very strange window specifications (e.g. RANGE BETWEEN 'inf' PRECEDING AND 'inf' PRECEDING), I'll desist from back-patching. Noted by Dean Rasheed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3393130.1594925893@sss.pgh.pa.us
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