In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

Human Nature is a funny thing. I implemented it originally as :model1 - :model99999 so people could "specify" roughly how many there would be. So many people were worried that model9999 would cost way more than model999 when there were only 100 or so actual records. They would run a pre-query so they could choose the useful number of 9's !!

model1 - model99999999 is practically the exact same thing as the open-ended variant added in 9.3

but it makes people so much happier not to have to guess the upper bound! who knew :-)

paul