On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
Intuitively, it seems like 1-D "overlaps" is a tractable enough operator that you should be able to make something merge-like work. But it's more complicated than I think you realize.
It's tractable when the two sides are symmetrical, but not so much when they aren't. Our "no it isn't" messages obviously crossed on the wire.
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