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3 The catalog <code class="structname">pg_range</code> stores information about
4 range types. This is in addition to the types' entries in
5 <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-type.html" title="52.64. pg_type"><code class="structname">pg_type</code></a>.
6 </p><div class="table" id="id-1.10.4.45.4"><p class="title"><strong>Table 52.43. <code class="structname">pg_range</code> Columns</strong></p><div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="pg_range Columns" border="1"><colgroup><col /></colgroup><thead><tr><th class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
11 </p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
12 <code class="structfield">rngtypid</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
13 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-type.html" title="52.64. pg_type"><code class="structname">pg_type</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
17 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
18 <code class="structfield">rngsubtype</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
19 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-type.html" title="52.64. pg_type"><code class="structname">pg_type</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
22 OID of the element type (subtype) of this range type
23 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
24 <code class="structfield">rngmultitypid</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
25 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-type.html" title="52.64. pg_type"><code class="structname">pg_type</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
28 OID of the multirange type for this range type
29 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
30 <code class="structfield">rngcollation</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
31 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-collation.html" title="52.12. pg_collation"><code class="structname">pg_collation</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
34 OID of the collation used for range comparisons, or zero if none
35 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
36 <code class="structfield">rngsubopc</code> <code class="type">oid</code>
37 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-opclass.html" title="52.33. pg_opclass"><code class="structname">pg_opclass</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
40 OID of the subtype's operator class used for range comparisons
41 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
42 <code class="structfield">rngcanonical</code> <code class="type">regproc</code>
43 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-proc.html" title="52.39. pg_proc"><code class="structname">pg_proc</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
46 OID of the function to convert a range value into canonical form,
48 </p></td></tr><tr><td class="catalog_table_entry"><p class="column_definition">
49 <code class="structfield">rngsubdiff</code> <code class="type">regproc</code>
50 (references <a class="link" href="catalog-pg-proc.html" title="52.39. pg_proc"><code class="structname">pg_proc</code></a>.<code class="structfield">oid</code>)
53 OID of the function to return the difference between two element
54 values as <code class="type">double precision</code>, or zero if none
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56 <code class="structfield">rngsubopc</code> (plus <code class="structfield">rngcollation</code>, if the
57 element type is collatable) determines the sort ordering used by the range
58 type. <code class="structfield">rngcanonical</code> is used when the element type is
59 discrete. <code class="structfield">rngsubdiff</code> is optional but should be supplied to
60 improve performance of GiST indexes on the range type.
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