On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 09:11 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
> > How would the system catalogs be initialized under that theory: surely
> > you're not going to seed (nr. of types) * (nr. of collations) * (nr. of
> > opclasses) range types in initdb?
>
> There's CREATE RANGE.
Right. In that respect, it's more like a record type: many possible
record types exist, but you only define the ones you want.
> By default, no range types would exists I believe.
I was planning to include _some_ by default. Probably not text ranges,
but integer and timestamp[tz] ranges. If nothing else, it makes it
easier to document.
Regards,Jeff Davis