Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor
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Msg-id CA+TgmobqHd0N14LbE1gzunAQQ-7wV=tEb2E1=iQcX_Z2Z0AiCQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> Nothing's bad about '[]' per se.  What's better, but possibly out of
> the reach of our current lexing and parsing system, would be things
> like:
>
> [1::int, 10)

That's been discussed before.  Aside from the parser issues (which are
formidable) it would break brace-matching in most if not all commonly
used editors.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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