Jeff,
> Aside: I'll take this alarm as a very strong hint that I shouldn't push
> the "range types" any more until the next development cycle.
> Particularly because Tom is one of the people with opinions about it, so
> I don't want to distract him from features submitted several commitfests
> ago.
Yeah, as much as I love range types (and will use them) they are
distributable separately from PostgreSQL, and can be used as add-ons
until 8.6.
--Josh Berkus