Github user rxin commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21482
  
    OK I double checked. I don't think we should be adding this functionality, 
since different databases implemented it differently, and it is somewhat 
difficult to create Infinity in Spark SQL given we return null or nan.
    
    On top of that, we already support equality for infinity, e.g.
    ```
    spark.range(1).select(
      org.apache.spark.sql.functions.lit(java.lang.Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY) 
===org.apache.spark.sql.functions.lit(java.lang.Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY)).show()
    ```
    
    The above shows true.
    
    
    If you start adding inf, we'd need to soon add functions for negative 
infinity, and these functions provide very little value beyond what we already 
support using equality.



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