Re: BETWEEN SYMMETRIC/ASYMMETRIC

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gavin Sherry" <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BETWEEN SYMMETRIC/ASYMMETRIC
Date: 2002-04-18 03:24:55
Message-ID: 5674.1019100295@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> So should I go ahead and submit a patch for BETWEEN that adds SYMMETRY
> support in the old-style code, and then at a later stage submit a patch that
> makes BETWEEN a proper node?

I'd prefer to do it in one step. I have not noticed any large
groundswell of demand for BETWEEN SYMMETRIC ... so I don't see a good
reason for implementing a stopgap version. (It would be a stopgap
mainly because the planner wouldn't recognize it as a range query.)

regards, tom lane

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