Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1edgUe-0003U2-57 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:06:52 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1edgUc-0001eL-53 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:06:50 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1edgUb-0001eC-Sm for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:06:50 +0000 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1edgUU-0005Yt-BJ for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:06:48 +0000 Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74719211AE; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:06:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:06:40 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=apQFDB sVWaeqU+Co4HHi6aPzfbWCx4GizL0Y9AkHeZw=; b=NMNkjoLj+1xKHdcKT+8doy 8oA09Ek340J0SqWpwAf2XXhQNEZ3NcpANQT1rSBqe2LsMBuPitxkEStPmqWBWMvq XiVRzV3HzUYLiJmHExTud9MiNrbalSTohKQi1r5G5YcDyEPN4Qcymb0E2Uk0TUbg BRM1ygFeRzO5BiTiR1cubT008QY4bCgu1UUzXhBtA8+Uc6pH/LwcDZp241uSWYZu JWe7cF1FZqalte32Xcbemy16Xpp2xL+tf4LfAFoNpEAEdetg0Db7ikvtOGGuHen3 OLfrsnGIQA15StvIVw5VrXQ7RfaUPzzdW18B+eZ3XvMgt34bYYq0YtbIpc2DrdRg == X-ME-Sender: Received: from april.local (c-73-13-66-39.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.13.66.39]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 320E224547; Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:06:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: overlapping ranges To: Nick Farrell References: <20180120205832.3624.66654@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org, PG Doc comments form From: Peter Eisentraut Organization: 2ndQuadrant Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:06:39 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On 1/20/18 17:39, Nick Farrell wrote: > Further down the page, that is contradicted, where there are numeric > ranges spaced every hundred, where it says that is disallowed because of > the ambiguity at the overlap point. That talks about the old way of doing partitioning, which works differently in this respect. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services