Re: Range Types: << >> -|- ops vs empty range

Where are we on this?

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Erik Rijkers wrote:
> On Wed, February 9, 2011 09:35, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > Updated patch.
> >
> 
> The operators  <<  >>  and -|-  have the following behavior with empty ranges:
> 
> testdb=# select '-'::int4range << range(200,300);
> ERROR:  empty range
> testdb=# select '-'::int4range >> range(200,300);
> ERROR:  empty range
> testdb=# select '-'::int4range -|- range(200,300);
> ERROR:  empty range
> 
> I'm not sure if that is deliberate behavior, but they seem
> almost bugs to me.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better (and more practical) if these would
> return false (or perhaps NULL, for 'unknown') ?
> 
> (the same goes for all the other range types, btw.)
> 
> 
> Erik Rijkers
> 
> 
> 
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