Re: Range Type Support

On 20/09/2012 02:18, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>>> - Possibly it should support an "in" operator and an & operator. But
>>> >> then, should we mimic all the operators?
>>> >> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/functions-range.html>
>>> >> Probably not.
>> >
>> > By "&" do you mean "&&"?  Part of me thinks we should support overlaps, but part of the power of the range types
featureis that Postgres can handle overlap operations (which are nontrivial to build).  I see "in" being used a lot. 
> There's no && operator in python. But you are sorta right: I was
> thinking about an operator saying if two intervals match, not to
> return their intersection. But would it be any useful? It's definitely
> little thing compared to the richness of the postgres range type and
> implementing all of them is a project on its own. "in" otoh would be
> easy to implement.
>

After we have a basic range type we can add operators as methods (IMO,
in this case operator "overloading" in Python is not what we want). So
you can have:

range1.overlaps(range2)
range1.inside(range2)

and so on. "in" can be an alias for one of such methods.

In fact a range type is so useful that I am amazed it doesn't already
exists in Python.

federico

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