On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:06:22 +0200, Karsten Hilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:43:27AM +0300, Andrus wrote: > > > Empty data is a date which is less that all other dates. > > Why would that be ? "<Empty> of type <unknown>" cannot be less > than (nor more than nor equal to) "<not empty> of type <date>". > If you want to express the valid idea of "<less-than-anything> > of type <date>" you are better off using a logical construct > tailored for that purpose. It may help to use "<4734-01-01 BC> of > type <date>" or some such. However the best would be to use > "-infinity". See the docs.
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