On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:27:26PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-range.html
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> 
> Hi.
> 
> It would be nice if next examples:
> 
> <<    strictly left of        int8range(1,10) << int8range(100,110)   t
> >>    strictly right of       int8range(50,60) >> int8range(20,30)    t
> &<    does not extend to the right of         int8range(1,20) &< 
> int8range(18,20)
>       t
> &>    does not extend to the left of  int8range(7,20) &> int8range(5,10)      
> t
> 
> are extended by:
> **not** strictly left of, **not** strictly right of, **extends** to the
> right of, **extends** to the left of
> 
> Because without manual experiments I can not imagine the ranges that cause
> 'false' result for the examples above.

Well, they are not technically negatives of each other.  << means the
first is all left of the second, while &< means that it doesn't go to
the right of the second, e.g.,

        SELECT int8range(1,10) &< int8range(100,110);
         ?column?
        ----------
         t
        
        SELECT int8range(1,105) &< int8range(100,110);
         ?column?
        ----------
         t
        
        SELECT int8range(1,200) &< int8range(100,110);
         ?column?
        ----------
         f

Notice it changed from true to false and none of these was strictly to
the right.

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