Re: WIP: RangeTypes

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP: RangeTypes
Date: 2011-01-18 00:09:12
Message-ID: 4D34DA28.4000703@agliodbs.com
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On 1/17/11 1:09 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I feel like I'm making this too complicated. Should I just scope out
> NULL range boundaries for the first cut, and leave room in the
> representation so that it can be added when there is a more thorough
> proposal for NULL range boundaries?

Well, NULL range boundaries aren't usable with Temporal, and yet I wrote
a whole scheduling application around it. So I think it's OK to have
them as a TODO and raise an error for now. Heck, we had arrays which
didn't accept NULLs for years.

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