Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > In short, I think that while it is possible to define ranges of strings, > > it is not as useful as one would like. > > Note it is not the *range* that is the problem, it is the assumption > that there's a unique "next" string. There's no unique next in the > reals or rationals either, but we have no problem considering intervals > over those sets.
Yeah, agreed. It's easy (I think) to define more useful ranges of strings if you don't insist in having "next". -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
