First cut at making useful selectivity estimates for range queries
(ie, WHERE x > lowbound AND x < highbound). It's not very bright yet but it does something useful. Also, rename intltsel/intgtsel to scalarltsel/scalargtsel to reflect usage better. Extend convert_to_scalar to do something a little bit useful with string data types. Still need to make it do something with date/time datatypes, but I'll wait for Thomas's datetime unification dust to settle first. Eventually the routine ought not have any type-specific knowledge at all; it ought to be calling a type-dependent routine found via a pg_type column; but that's a task for another day.
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