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Re: Range Types - typo + NULL string constructor

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

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From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-11T18:04:07Z
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  1. Replace the "New Linear" GiST split algorithm for boxes and points with a

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@fetter.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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