Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> writes: > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 08:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> It needs to return FALSE, actually. After further reading I realized >> that you have that behavior hard-wired into the range GiST routines, >> and it's silly to make the stand-alone versions of the function act >> differently.
> Good point. That makes sense to me. While thinking about this ... would it be sensible for range_lower and range_upper to return NULL instead of throwing an exception for empty or infinite ranges? As with these comparison functions, throwing an error seems like a fairly unpleasant definition to work with in practice. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers