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quotemstryesterday at 6:07 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a trade-off. If you store both endpoints you can continue to think of rows as order-invariant tuples. If you store only one endpoint, you have to impose a meaningful order on the rows in order for them to make sense.


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larsnystromyesterday at 6:20 PM

Sure, from a theoretical perspective, but in practice there’s got to be some sort of order at some point even when storing timespans.