FYI.... although I remain a +1 on KISS and emitting "infinity", for those of you still yearning after a standards-based implementation, there is a StackOverflow post which hints at sections 3.5 and 3.7 of ISO8601:2004. Unfortunatley I can't find a link to an ISO8601:2004 text, so you'll have to make do with the SO quoted extracts instead.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11408249/how-do-you-represent-forever-infinitely-in-the-future-in-iso8601 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general