Re: Range types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Range types
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Msg-id 9470.1260995183@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Range types  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> In short, I think that while it is possible to define ranges of strings,
> it is not as useful as one would like.

Note it is not the *range* that is the problem, it is the assumption
that there's a unique "next" string.  There's no unique next in the
reals or rationals either, but we have no problem considering intervals
over those sets.
        regards, tom lane


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