Subject: Re: Add RANGE with values and exclusions clauses to the Window
 Functions
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Oliver Ford <ojford@gmail.com>
Cc: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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From: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:47:59 +0100
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On 01/09/2018 10:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Generally speaking, Postgres tries hard to be an extensible-datatype
> system, going beyond the SQL standard's minimum requirements when
> necessary to make it so.  The reason that we don't already have RANGE
> PRECEDING/FOLLOWING support is that nobody was satisfied with only
> making it work for integers and datetimes.  There was, as I recall, code
> implementing more or less what you've got here in the original window
> function submission, and we pulled it out before committing because of
> that inadequacy.  I don't think the fact that some years have gone by
> means that we should forget about keeping the feature extensible.

I'm glad I read the thread before I replied.  My biggest complaint I had
in my head when reading the initial post was that clamping down on
specific datatypes was distinctly non-PostgreSQL-esque.

I'm -1 on such a patch, even though I would really like this feature.
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