Re: Range Types, constructors, and the type system

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Range Types, constructors, and the type system
Date: 2011-06-28 16:30:22
Message-ID: C1FC1438-68E3-4F0D-95A8-6EC8E6D4055A@kineticode.com
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On Jun 27, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:

> Do we think that this is a good way forward? The only thing I can think
> of that's undesirable is that it's not normal to be required to cast the
> result of a function, and might be slightly difficult to explain in the
> documentation in a straightforward way

That's the part that bothers me. I think that if it's not cast it should somehow be useful. Maybe default to a text range or something?

Best,

David

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