From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Clever way to check overlapping time intervals ?
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:15:47 +0200
Message-ID: <20110916001547.GA32000@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E728CD7.9040505@gmx.net>
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Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a clever way to check overlapping time intervals ?
> An option named n should be taken from date y to y.
> The same name is ok for another interval.
>
> e.g. table : mytab ( d1 date, d2 date, n text, v text )
>
> There should be a constraint to provide no row can have a d1 or d2
> within the interval of another row in case they have the same n.
>
> And no row can have an interval that encloses an existing interval.
You can use the PERIOD data type:
http://temporal.projects.postgresql.org/reference.html
and the new (since 9.0) exclusion constraint:
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/01/03/waiting-for-8-5-exclusion-constraints/http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=postgresql+exclusion+constraint&aq=0L&aqi=g-L1&a...http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2010/03/09/temporal-postgresql-roadmap/
Andreas
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