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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
index c4fcd0076ea..4ea5415f204 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
@@ -4802,6 +4802,10 @@ convert_timevalue_to_scalar(Datum value, Oid typid, bool *failure)
* Convert the month part of Interval to days using assumed
* average month length of 365.25/12.0 days. Not too
* accurate, but plenty good enough for our purposes.
+ *
+ * This also works for infinite intervals, which just have all
+ * fields set to INT_MIN/INT_MAX, and so will produce a result
+ * smaller/larger than any finite interval.
*/
return interval->time + interval->day * (double) USECS_PER_DAY +
interval->month * ((DAYS_PER_YEAR / (double) MONTHS_PER_YEAR) * USECS_PER_DAY);