Re: Example for intersection operator is wrong - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Example for intersection operator is wrong
Date
Msg-id 8266.1468517814@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Example for intersection operator is wrong  (etulsky@gmail.com)
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etulsky@gmail.com writes:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-range.html
> Description:

> On the page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-range.html
> it gives an example for the intersection of range (5,15) and range (10,20)
> as [10,15). But 10 isn't included in the second range; the actual output of
> this operator is [11,15).

Uh, no, it isn't:

regression=# select int8range(5,15) * int8range(10,20);
 ?column?
----------
 [10,15)
(1 row)

You'd be correct if int8range(10,20) produced '(10,20)', but it produces
'[10,20)'.

            regards, tom lane


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