On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Technically, anything that can be done using INCLUSIVE/EXCLUSIVE can > also be done using using MINVALUE/MAXVALUE, by artificially adding > another partitioning column and making it unbounded above/below, but > that would really just be a hack, and it (artificially adding an extra > column) would be unnecessary if we added INCLUSIVE/EXCLUSIVE support > in a later release. Thus, I think the 2 features would complement each > other quite nicely.
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OK, works for me. I'm not really keen about the MINVALUE/MAXVALUE syntax -- it's really +/- infinity, not a value at all -- but I haven't got a better proposal and yours at least has the virtue of perhaps being familiar to those who know about Oracle. Do you want to own this open item, then? -- 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
