Re: anyelement -> anyrange

<div dir="ltr"><br /><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Tom Lane
<spandir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us" target="_blank">tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</a>></span> wrote:<br
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><spanclass="">Jim Nasby <<a
href="mailto:Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com">Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com</a>>writes:<br /> > I can't think of any reason
you'dwant two different range types on a<br /> > single element type.<br /><br /></span>We would not have built it
thatway if there were not clear use-cases.<br /> An easy example is you might want both a continuous timestamp range<br
/>and one that is quantized to hour boundaries.  Primarily what the<br /> range type brings in besides the element type
isa canonicalization<br /> function; and we can't guess which one you want.<br /><br />                        
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/></div><divclass="gmail_extra"><br />Jim,<br /><br /></div><div class="gmail_extra">I wrote a routine that fishes in
thedictionary for a suitable range type:<br /><a
href="https://github.com/moat/range_partitioning/blob/master/sql/range_partitioning.sql#L459-L485">https://github.com/moat/range_partitioning/blob/master/sql/range_partitioning.sql#L459-L485</a><br
/><br/>Obviously, it has the problems when the number of suitable ranges <> 1 as mentioned by Tom.</div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br/></div><div class="gmail_extra">You might also find some gleanable gems in:<br /><a
href="https://github.com/moat/range_type_functions/blob/master/doc/range_type_functions.md">https://github.com/moat/range_type_functions/blob/master/doc/range_type_functions.md</a><br
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