| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor |
| Date: | 2011-10-11 18:04:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20111011180407.GC7119@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > Nothing's bad about '[]' per se. What's better, but possibly out
> > of the reach of our current lexing and parsing system, would be
> > things like:
> >
> > [1::int, 10)
>
> That's been discussed before. Aside from the parser issues (which
> are formidable) it would break brace-matching in most if not all
> commonly used editors.
That being the situation, ubiquitous support for the natural syntax
looks like it's a decade away, minimum. :(
Trying to be cheery,
David.
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