"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> What I am tempted to do about this is have make_greater_string tack "zz"
> onto the supplied prefix, so that it would have to find a string that
> compares greater than "123/zz" before reporting success. This is
> getting pretty klugy though, so cc'ing to pgsql-hackers to see if anyone
> has a better idea.
Hm, instead of "zz" is there a convenient way to find out what actual
character sorts last amongst all the single characters in the locale's
encoding?
Doesn't really strike at the core reason that this is so klugy though. Surely
the "right" thing is to push the concept of open versus closed end-points
through deeper into the estimation logic?
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