Re: Range-Types in 9.2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marc Mamin
Subject Re: Range-Types in 9.2
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In response to Range-Types in 9.2  (Andreas Kretschmer <andreas@a-kretschmer.de>)
Responses Re: Range-Types in 9.2  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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hello,

agree about this great feature :)

There is another point I've wondered about:

Is there some logical reason why no function width(range) was added to the bundle ?
not a big deal, but width(range) looks just nicer than upper(range)-lower(range)

best regards,

Marc Mamin


-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Jeff Davis
Sent: Fri 8/3/2012 7:42 PM
To: Andreas Kretschmer
Cc: pg-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Range-Types in 9.2

On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 17:06 +0200, Andreas Kretschmer wrote:
> Hi all,
> great feature, but i can't find a TIMERANGE, i want to store time-ranges, for
> instance [10:00:00,16:00:00), how can i do that?

CREATE TYPE timerange AS RANGE ( subtype = time );

That's the simple answer. I believe we discussed including this as a
built-in range type at some point, but decided against it. I can't
remember the reason right now.

Regards,
        Jeff Davis


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