Re: Range types

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 01:32:08PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

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> (Also, stuff like strings simply doesn't have any sane concept of a
> unique next or previous value.

If you are willing to limit the length, then yes, you could consider
them discrete too, but...

> I think the number of types that are
> really discrete in this sense is very small, like maybe just ints and
> enums.)

...I do agree that ranges over continuous types are the more
"interesting"[1] (and possibly more useful) beast.

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[11] Unfortunaltel they could turn out to be "interesting" in the sense
of "may you live in interresting times" ;-)

Regards
- -- tomás
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