On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 02:32:56PM -0700, Kevin Grittner wrote: > The operators and sequencing involving actual records seems to be > different from that for row value constructors, and it appears to > be for good reason -- so that indexing will work correctly. > > My questions: > > Did I miss somewhere that the docs do cover this?
I, too, don't see it. > If not, do we want to describe it? Why not? +1 for documenting it. We document <, >, <=, >=, =, and <> generically[1]. Several types that make non-obvious decisions for those operators (float8, range types, arrays) document those decisions. "record" hasn't done so, but it should. > If we don't want to document the above, would the same arguments > apply to the operators I'm adding? (i.e., Do we want to avoid docs > on these, possibly on the basis of them being an internal > implementation detail?) Separate decision, IMO. See progress on the more-recent thread. [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-comparison.html -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
