Re: Range types

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:02:04AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:06 AM, <tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de> wrote:

[...]

> > This looks more natural to me too.
>
> It 's very different than the way we've traditionally used typmod,
> though, which Tom described pretty well here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-11/msg01183.php
>
> For example, function signatures ignore typmod, so you'll be able to
> write a function that takes a range, but you won't know what kind of
> range you're getting [...]

> Also, typid is unsigned and typmod is signed. Again, awkward [...]

Ugh. I see. Thank you for this very insightful comment.

Regards
- -- tomás
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