PostgreSQL tsrange: is it correct for lower_inf('(-infinity,today)'::tsrange) to be false?
问题 In the course of writing a program that accepts tsrange literals from the user, which are then plugged into various SQL queries, today I was testing some tsranges to see how they are interpreted by PostgreSQL 9.3.5. This one, in particular, behaves strangely: '(-infinity,today)'::tsrange The lower_inf function says the lower bound is not infinite (!) test=> SELECT lower_inf('(-infinity,today)'::tsrange); lower_inf ----------- f (1 row) Yet PostgreSQL reports that this tsrange contains a