Re: Range Types and extensions

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 06:56 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2011/6/6 Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>:
> > Jeff Davis wrote:
> >>
> >> I'd like to take another look at Range Types and whether part of it
> >> should be an extension. Some of these issues relate to extensions in
> >> general, not just range types.
> >>
> >> First of all, what are the advantages to being in core?
>
> it should be supported by FOREACH statement in PL/pgSQL

Oh, good idea. It would only work for discrete ranges though.

However, I would need to somehow reintroduce the concept of "next",
which has some hazards to it (as Tom pointed out, we don't want someone
to define the "next" for a float to be "+1.0"). I'll have to think about
this.

Regards,
Jeff Davis