On 2017/02/24 10:38, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp >> wrote: > >> On 2017/02/24 8:38, Venkata B Nagothi wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Amit Langote wrote: >>>> Upper bound of a range partition is an exclusive bound. A note was >> added >>>> recently to the CREATE TABLE page to make this clear. >>>> >>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-createtable.html >>> >>> >>> Thanks. Actually, my confusion was that the upper bound value would be >>> included when "TO" clause is used in the syntax. >> >> Hmm, TO sounds like it implies inclusive. >> > > I think most common usage of the word ends up being inclusive but the word > itself doesn't really care. > > Dictionary.com has a good example: > > "We work from nine to five." - you leave at the beginning of the 5 o'clock > hour (I'm going for casual usage here)
Thanks for that example.
One problem I've seen people mention is one of cognitive dissonance of having to define partition_y2013 as FROM ('2013-01-01') TO ('2014-01-01'), given that that's the only way to get what one needs. But we concluded that that's a reasonable compromise.
Agreed. I do see the similar approach adopted across other traditional RDBMS products as well.
