Re: Documentation of return values of range functions lower and upper - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Documentation of return values of range functions lower and upper
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Msg-id 687683a11c0d8bd0466cedbcb99d098c11f31f97.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Documentation of return values of range functions lower and upper  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, 2023-11-02 at 10:14 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Better, though "Is the range's upper bound unbounded?" makes me cringe.
>
> Oh, yeah, totally cringe, me too.  :-)
>
> > It is not the bound that is bounded or not, but the range.
> >
> > How about "Is the range unbounded at the upper end?" or "Does the range
> > have no upper bound?"
>
> I used your "end" idea to modify the patch, attached.

There are still some loose ends:

- you lost the specification whether it is the upper or the lower bound

- "Infinity" is a literal

- "-Infinity" is a very unlikely value for an upper bound

How about the attached version?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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