On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 10:41 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote: > +1 in principal. I think we should try to avoid the user of the term > "period" if possible, and I see definite benefits to a simple model of > $typename . 'range';
Interesting, I didn't realize that PERIOD was such an undesirable type name. > Is there GIN support? GIN seems to be the preferred index type for > this sort of thing, no? GiST is the natural index access method if we approach ranges as a spatial type. I don't quite know what you have in mind for GIN; what keys would you extract from the value '[1.23,4.56)' ? 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