Re: No multi range functions on version 12

From: Nimrod Sadeh <nnnsadeh(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: No multi range functions on version 12
Date: 2022-12-15 14:40:34
Message-ID: 92F3B56C-4B48-4217-8166-6CD429BBB339@gmail.com
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I misread the “supported versions” section of the documentation, being new to Postgres. In the following screenshot, I took it to mean that this feature (ranges/multiranges) is supported for the “supported version” as opposed to the platform as a whole:

> On Dec 15, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 12/15/22 6:46 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 12:45 PM PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org <mailto:noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>> wrote:
>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html
>> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html>
>> Description:
>> Hello, according to the documentation, Postgres 12 should have multi
>> range
>> functions. However, in my installation of Postgres 12.12, I don't
>> have any
>> multi range function. When I ran them Postgres said they didn't
>> exist and I
>> can't see them when querying through pg_proc.
>> What documentation says they should be in version 12? The page you commented on is about PostgreSQL 15, and multiranges were not present in version 12...
>
> Multiranges were added in PostgreSQL 14:
>
> "Range types have been extended by adding multiranges, allowing representation of noncontiguous data ranges."[1]
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/14.0/

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