Re: Range types

From: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Range types
Date: 2009-12-16 13:23:40
Message-ID: 20091216132340.GA28820@tomas
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On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:16:28PM +0100, Nicolas Barbier wrote:

[...]

> <whatever>
>
> and
>
> <same whatever as before> + the character with the lowest value in
> lexicographical ordering.
>
> I don't think it is possible to get anything in between those two strings.

Yes, that was basically Andrew's argumentation. I was taken away too
much by the similarity between strings and (decimal, base N) fractions,
forgetting that the last have lots of unwritten zeros at the end...

But hey, 'twas nice to learn that strings aren't as boring as I first
thought...

Regards
- -- tomás
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