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)
Since our implementation of ranges is half-open the usage here is consistent with that concept. That it doesn't match BETWEEN is actually somewhat nice since you can use ranges for half-open and BETWEEN if you want to be concise with fully-closed endpoints. But it is one more thing to remember.
