On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 12:03 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> For what it's worth, my completely uninformed opinion is that
>> comparison operators shouldn't error out. I haven't read the patch so
>> I'm not sure what those operators are defined to do, though.
>
> ">>" means "strictly right of"
> "<<" means "strictly left of"
> "-|-" means "adjacent" (touching but not overlapping)
>
> I'm open to suggestion about how those behave with empty ranges.
Hmm, so an empty range is a range that includes nothing at all, right?Not "everything in the world"?
Are we sure we even want to have that concept?
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