Re: Range Types and extensions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Range Types and extensions
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In response to Re: Range Types and extensions  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Re: Range Types and extensions
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
>> If I'm not mistaken about this, that would imply that we also cannot
>> have two range types with the same base type, the same opclass,
>> but different collations. Which seems rather unfortunate... In fact,
>> if that's true, maybe restricing range types to the database collation
>> would be best...
>
> Yes, we cannot have two range types with the same base type. That is a
> consequence of the polymorphic type system, which needs to be able to
> determine the range type given the base type.

Boy, that's an unfortunate limitation.  :-(

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Robert Haas
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