| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Marcin Mańk <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [v9.2] make_greater_string() does not return a string in some cases |
| Date: | 2011-09-26 10:52:23 |
| Message-ID: | 1317034343.1759.13.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com |
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On fre, 2011-09-23 at 20:35 +0300, Marcin Mańk wrote:
> One idea:
> col like 'foo%' could be translated to col >= 'foo' and col <= foo || 'zzz' , where 'z' is the largest possible character. This should be good enough for calculating stats.
>
> How to find such a character, i do not know.
That's what makes this so difficult.
If we knew the largest character, we could probably also find the
largest-1, largest-2, etc. characters and determine the total order of
everything.
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