Re: make_greater_string() does not return a string in some cases

Tatsuhito Kasahara <kasahara(dot)tatsuhito(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> I have another idea.

> 1. We prepare new operators ( <,<=,>,=>,= ) for text and bytea.
> 2. In make_greater_string(), if
> multi-byte-string was set and
> using locale-C and
> could not find greater string,
> returns bytea which has greater byte-code of last-character.

> Is the idea reasonable ?

Maybe, but it only works for text_pattern_ops indexes not normal ones.
Not sure if people will be happy with maintaining a special index just
to cover this corner case.

I'm not convinced that there's enough of a problem here to be worth
sweating over. If we're not able to generate a "greater" string with
the current rules, the odds are that the pattern is so close to the end
of the index range that a one-sided test is not going to make much
difference compared to a two-sided one.

regards, tom lane