On Jun29, 2011, at 19:05 , David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I'm still not clear, though, on why the return type of range()
> should not be related to the types of its arguments. So
>
> range(1, 5)
>
> Should return intrange, and
>
> range(1::int8, 5::int8)
>
> Should return int8range, and
>
> range('foo', 'foooo')
>
> Should return textrange.
Because there might be more than one range type for a
base type. Say there are two range types over text, one
with collation 'de_DE' and one with collation 'en_US'.
What would the type of
range('foo', 'foooo')
be?
best regards,
Florian Pflug
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