On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 12:03 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> For what it's worth, my completely uninformed opinion is that >> comparison operators shouldn't error out. I haven't read the patch so >> I'm not sure what those operators are defined to do, though. > > ">>" means "strictly right of" > "<<" means "strictly left of" > "-|-" means "adjacent" (touching but not overlapping) > > I'm open to suggestion about how those behave with empty ranges.
Hmm, so an empty range is a range that includes nothing at all, right? Not "everything in the world"? Are we sure we even want to have that concept? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers