Re: BETWEEN Help

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BETWEEN Help
Date: 2002-04-14 23:56:36
Message-ID: 200204142356.g3ENuaI16436@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Is there special optimizer/index handling needed for BETWEEN that wasn't
> > needed before because it was transformed into AND/OR comparisons?
>
> Yup, that's one place that will need to be taught about it.

That was actually a reason I was wondering if it was worth changing our
current BETWEEN code. The optimizer already is complicated and trying
to do BETWEEN rather than the more simpler statements didn't seem like a
win.

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