-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:16:28PM +0100, Nicolas Barbier wrote:
[...] > <whatever> > > and > > <same whatever as before> + the character with the lowest value in > lexicographical ordering. > > I don't think it is possible to get anything in between those two strings. Yes, that was basically Andrew's argumentation. I was taken away too much by the similarity between strings and (decimal, base N) fractions, forgetting that the last have lots of unwritten zeros at the end... But hey, 'twas nice to learn that strings aren't as boring as I first thought... Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLKN9cBcgs9XrR2kYRAl4LAJ9rHs/mlR3+j+79YOUtNUTCY0JOEwCZAROn WsIQoT8nCbgCOaDWraH7jVk= =vjV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
