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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: miwalsh <miwalsh@vt.edu>
Cc: pqsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Numeric Columns
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:09:46 -0400
Message-ID: <27364.1126228186@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438F8BE9@zathras>
References: <438F8BE9@zathras>

miwalsh <miwalsh@vt.edu> writes:
> I need to make a column that is capable of holding numeric values along with 
> certain modifiers such as "<" or ">". The column needs to be searchable by 
> numbers. For example, if someone searches for values lower than 10.0 the 
> column should return the relevant values. However, the column needs to be able 
> to hold values like "<0.05".

contrib/seg might do more or less what you're looking for, but none of
the standard datatypes will.

			regards, tom lane



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