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Re: WIP: RangeTypes

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-01-18T00:09:12Z
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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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