On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 15:47 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>> > Any ideas? Maybe, with alignment and a "flags" byte (to hold
>> > inclusivity, infinite boundaries, etc.), the extra 4 bytes doesn't cost
>> > much, anyway?
>>
>> I'd be really reluctant to bloat the range representation by 4 bytes
>> to support an anyrange type. Better to defer this until the great day
>> when we get a better typmod system, at least IMHO.
>
> Can you elaborate? How can we have generic functions without ANYRANGE?
>
> And without generic functions, how do we make it easy for users to
> specify a new range type?
Oh, hmm. What generic functions did you have in mind?
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