On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 20:36 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > "Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > > Would you be comfortable writing that '012[3-5]' range as > > '[0123, 0126)' or something similar? What benefits do you see to > > using a range for prefixes versus a regular expression? > > Your proposed syntax would do fine, sure. Something like this is even on > the TODO list for prefix indexing, but for the internal representation, > as I think there might be some optimisation potential there. Meanwhile, > it would be easy enough to accept alternative input syntax.
Interesting example of a situation where the representation can be optimized. I suspected that this was the case, but perhaps my example wasn't as compelling: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-10/msg01842.php This suggests that there should be some way for the user to specify their own representation function. 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
