On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 20:32 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 15:47 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > >> > Any ideas? Maybe, with alignment and a "flags" byte (to hold > >> > inclusivity, infinite boundaries, etc.), the extra 4 bytes doesn't cost > >> > much, anyway? > >> > >> I'd be really reluctant to bloat the range representation by 4 bytes > >> to support an anyrange type. Better to defer this until the great day > >> when we get a better typmod system, at least IMHO. > > > > Can you elaborate? How can we have generic functions without ANYRANGE? > > > > And without generic functions, how do we make it easy for users to > > specify a new range type? > > Oh, hmm. What generic functions did you have in mind?
Well, input/output, comparisons, overlaps, intersection, minus, and all the necessary GiST support functions. Without generic functions, the only choices we have are: * force the user to write and specify them all -- which doesn't leave much left of my feature (I think the interface would be all that's left). * somehow generate the functions at type creation time Any other ideas? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers