Re: Range Type constructors - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: Range Type constructors
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In response to Re: Range Type constructors  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> It will certainly mess up syntax highlighting and matching bracket detection
>> in pretty much all text editors...
>
> Yeah.  It's a cute-looking notation but surely it will cause many more
> problems than it's worth.  I agree with Robert's suggestion of plain
> functions named like range_co() etc.

I could see myself using ranges in ways similar to using arrays. It should would be nice to have the equivalent of
ARRAY[]and/or ARRAY() to use for ranges… 

Best,

David

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