Re: Arbitrary whitespace restrictions on range types

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Arbitrary whitespace restrictions on range types
Date: 2012-12-19 01:42:35
Message-ID: 1355881355.24766.203.camel@sussancws0025
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On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 00:06 +0000, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 18 December 2012 23:31, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> > Jeff, Hackers:
> >
> > Is there a strong reason why this has to error?
>
> Having taken a look at the range I/O routines, I surmise that it was
> just easier to write range_parse() such that whitespace is included
> within <string> tokens:

There was some discussion about it, and the decision was made to match
record literal parsing for the sake of consistency. In a record literal,
spaces are considered to be a part of the value, so they are for range
types, as well.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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