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Re: Range Type constructors

From:	"David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To:	Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:	Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject:	Re: Range Type constructors
Date:	2011-02-10 19:45:15
Message-ID:	FE845321-DAFB-4CA6-A086-20EC7025CCC3@kineticode.com (view raw or flat)
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On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> It will certainly mess up syntax highlighting and matching bracket detection
>> in pretty much all text editors...
> 
> Yeah.  It's a cute-looking notation but surely it will cause many more
> problems than it's worth.  I agree with Robert's suggestion of plain
> functions named like range_co() etc.

I could see myself using ranges in ways similar to using arrays. It should would be nice to have the equivalent of ARRAY[] and/or ARRAY() to use for ranges…

Best,

David

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