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* checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-05 22:42  Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>
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From: Anton Gavazuk @ 2012-10-05 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Hi dear community,

Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,

Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date

start          end
01 dec.     10 dec
11 dec.     13 dec
17 dec.     19 dec
.....

If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
nothing has come to the mind yet...

Thanks,
Anton




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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-06 07:44  Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
  parent: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread

From: Andreas Kretschmer @ 2012-10-06 07:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi dear community,
> 
> Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
> 
> Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
> 
> start          end
> 01 dec.     10 dec
> 11 dec.     13 dec
> 17 dec.     19 dec
> .....
> 
> If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
> that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
> because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
> nothing has come to the mind yet...

I'm thinking about a solution with DATERANGE (PostgreSQL 9.2)...


Are start and end including or excluding?


Andreas
-- 
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.                              (Linus Torvalds)
"If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly."   (unknown)
Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe.              N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°




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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-06 07:55  Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
  parent: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Andreas Kretschmer @ 2012-10-06 07:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net> wrote:

> Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi dear community,
> > 
> > Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
> > 
> > Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
> > 
> > start          end
> > 01 dec.     10 dec
> > 11 dec.     13 dec
> > 17 dec.     19 dec
> > .....
> > 
> > If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
> > that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
> > because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
> > nothing has come to the mind yet...
> 
> I'm thinking about a solution with DATERANGE (PostgreSQL 9.2)...
> 
> 
> Are start and end including or excluding?

Okay, my solution, quick and dirty ;-)

-- that's your table:

test=*# select * from ag;
 date_start |  date_end  
------------+------------
 2012-12-01 | 2012-12-10 
 2012-12-11 | 2012-12-13 
 2012-12-17 | 2012-12-19 
(3 rows)                 



-- now some views:
test=*# \d+ view_ag;
                   View "public.view_ag"
  Column  |   Type    | Modifiers | Storage  | Description 
----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-------------
 my_range | daterange |           | extended |             
View definition:                                           
 SELECT daterange(ag.date_start, ag.date_end, '[]'::text) AS my_range
   FROM ag;

test=*# \d+ view_ag2;
                  View "public.view_ag2"
  Column  |   Type    | Modifiers | Storage  | Description
----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-------------
 my_range | daterange |           | extended |
 my_lag   | daterange |           | extended |
View definition:
 SELECT view_ag.my_range,
    lag(view_ag.my_range) OVER (ORDER BY lower(view_ag.my_range)) AS my_lag
   FROM view_ag;

test=*# \d+ view_ag3;
                   View "public.view_ag3"
  Column   |   Type    | Modifiers | Storage  | Description
-----------+-----------+-----------+----------+-------------
 my_range  | daterange |           | extended |
 my_lag    | daterange |           | extended |
 ?column?  | boolean   |           | plain    |
 new_range | daterange |           | extended |
View definition:
 SELECT view_ag2.my_range, view_ag2.my_lag,
    view_ag2.my_lag -|- view_ag2.my_range,
        CASE
            WHEN view_ag2.my_lag -|- view_ag2.my_range THEN view_ag2.my_lag + view_ag2.my_range
            ELSE view_ag2.my_range
        END AS new_range
   FROM view_ag2;

-- and now my select:
-- first case, the range is not included
test=*# select count(*) from view_ag3 where new_range @> '[2012-12-12,2012-12-18]';
 count
-------
     0
(1 row)

-- and now, the range is included
test=*# select count(*) from view_ag3 where new_range @> '[2012-12-02,2012-12-13]';
 count
-------
     1
(1 row)


Hope that helps, but you need the 9.2.



Andreas
-- 
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.                              (Linus Torvalds)
"If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly."   (unknown)
Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe.              N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°




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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-06 08:04  Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
  parent: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Gavin Flower @ 2012-10-06 08:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On 06/10/12 11:42, Anton Gavazuk wrote:
> Hi dear community,
>
> Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
>
> Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
>
> start          end
> 01 dec.     10 dec
> 11 dec.     13 dec
> 17 dec.     19 dec
> .....
>
> If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
> that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
> because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
> nothing has come to the mind yet...
>
> Thanks,
> Anton
>
>
How about something like the following?

Cheers,
Gavin

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS period;

CREATE TABLE period
(
     id          serial PRIMARY KEY,
     start_date  date,
     end_date    date
);


INSERT INTO period (start_date, end_date) VALUES
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-10'),
('2012-12-11', '2012-12-13'),
('2012-12-17', '2012-12-19'),
('2012-12-20', '2012-12-25');


WITH RECURSIVE
     slot (start_date, end_date) AS
     (
             SELECT
                 p1.start_date,
                 p1.end_date
             FROM
                 period p1
             WHERE
                 NOT EXISTS
                 (
                     SELECT
                         1
                     FROM
                         period p2
                     WHERE
                         p1.start_date = p2.end_date + 1
                 )
         UNION ALL
             SELECT
                 s1.start_date,
                 p3.end_date
             FROM
                 slot s1,
                 period p3
             WHERE
                     p3.start_date = s1.end_date + 1
                 AND p3.end_date > s1.end_date
     )

SELECT
     s3.start_date,
     MIN(s3.end_date)
FROM
     slot s3
WHERE
         s3.start_date <= '2012-12-01'
     AND s3.end_date >= '2012-12-18'
GROUP BY
     s3.start_date
/**/;/**/.

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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-06 21:58  Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
  parent: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Gavin Flower @ 2012-10-06 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On 06/10/12 11:42, Anton Gavazuk wrote:
> Hi dear community,
>
> Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
>
> Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
>
> start          end
> 01 dec.     10 dec
> 11 dec.     13 dec
> 17 dec.     19 dec
> .....
>
> If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
> that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
> because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
> nothing has come to the mind yet...
>
> Thanks,
> Anton
>
>
If the periods _NEVER_ overlap, you can also use this this approach
(N.B. The indexing of the period table here, can be used in my previous 
solution where I had not considered the indexing seriously!)

Cheers,
Gavin

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS period;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS target;

CREATE TABLE period
(
     start_date  date,
     end_date    date,

     PRIMARY KEY (start_date, end_date)
);

CREATE INDEX ON period (end_date);


INSERT INTO period (start_date, end_date) VALUES
('2012-11-21', '2012-11-29'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-10'),
('2012-12-11', '2012-12-13'),
('2012-12-17', '2012-12-19'),
('2012-12-20', '2012-12-25');

TABLE period;


CREATE TABLE target
(
     start_date  date,
     end_date    date
);


INSERT INTO target (start_date, end_date) VALUES
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-01'),
('2012-12-02', '2012-12-02'),
('2012-12-09', '2012-12-09'),
('2012-12-10', '2012-12-10'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-09'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-10'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-12'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-13'),
('2012-12-02', '2012-12-09'),
('2012-12-02', '2012-12-12'),
('2012-12-03', '2012-12-11'),
('2012-12-02', '2012-12-13'),
('2012-12-02', '2012-12-15'),
('2012-12-01', '2012-12-18');

SELECT
     t.start_date,
     t.end_date
FROM
     target t
ORDER BY
     t.start_date,
     t.end_date
/**/;/**/


SELECT
     t1.start_date AS "Target Start",
     t1.end_date AS "Target End",
     (t1.end_date - t1.start_date) + 1 AS "Duration",
     p1.start_date AS "Period Start",
     p1.end_date AS "Period End"
FROM
     target t1,
     period p1
WHERE
     (
         SELECT
             SUM
             (
                 CASE
                     WHEN p2.end_date > t1.end_date
                         THEN p2.end_date - (p2.end_date - t1.end_date)
                         ELSE p2.end_date
                 END
                 -
                 CASE
                     WHEN p2.start_date < t1.start_date
                         THEN p2.start_date + (t1.start_date - 
p2.start_date)
                         ELSE p2.start_date
                 END
                 + 1
             )
         FROM
             period p2
         WHERE
                 p2.start_date <= t1.end_date
             AND p2.end_date >= t1.start_date
     ) = (t1.end_date - t1.start_date) + 1
     AND p1.start_date <= t1.end_date
     AND p1.end_date >= t1.start_date
ORDER BY
     t1.start_date,
     t1.end_date,
     p1.start_date
/**/;/**/

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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-07 01:30  Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
  parent: Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread

From: Jasen Betts @ 2012-10-07 01:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

On 2012-10-05, Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi dear community,
>
> Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
>
> Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
>
> start          end
> 01 dec.     10 dec
> 11 dec.     13 dec
> 17 dec.     19 dec
> .....
>
> If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
> that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
> because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
> nothing has come to the mind yet...

perhaps you can do a with-recursive query ?

create temp table Gavazuk 
      (id serial primary key, start date ,fin date);
insert into Gavazuk (start,fin) 
values ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10')
      ,('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
      ,('2012-12-17','2012-12-19');

-- this version treats ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10') ('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
-- as contiguous   

with recursive a as (
   select max (fin) as f from Gavazuk  
   where ('2012-12-12') between start and fin
  union all
   select distinct (fin) from gavazuk,a 
   where a.f+1 between start and fin and start <= '2012-12-12'
)
select max(f) >= '2012-12-18' from a;

-- this version treats ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10') ('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
-- as non-contiguous   

with recursive a as (
   select max (fin) as f from Gavazuk  
   where ('2012-12-12') between start and fin
  union all
   select distinct (fin) from gavazuk,a 
   where a.f between start and fin-1 and start <= '2012-12-12'
)
select max(f) >= '2012-12-18' from a;


-- 
⚂⚃ 100% natural





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* Re: checking the gaps in intervals
@ 2012-10-11 20:25  Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
  parent: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread

From: Gavin Flower @ 2012-10-11 20:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

On 07/10/12 14:30, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2012-10-05, Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi dear community,
>>
>> Have probably quite simple task but cannot find the solution,
>>
>> Imagine the table A with 2 columns start and end, data type is date
>>
>> start          end
>> 01 dec.     10 dec
>> 11 dec.     13 dec
>> 17 dec.     19 dec
>> .....
>>
>> If I have interval, for example, 12 dec-18 dec, how can I determine
>> that the interval cannot be fully covered by values from table A
>> because of the gap 14-16 dec? Looking for solution and unfortunately
>> nothing has come to the mind yet...
> perhaps you can do a with-recursive query ?
>
> create temp table Gavazuk
>        (id serial primary key, start date ,fin date);
> insert into Gavazuk (start,fin)
> values ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10')
>        ,('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
>        ,('2012-12-17','2012-12-19');
>
> -- this version treats ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10') ('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
> -- as contiguous
>
> with recursive a as (
>     select max (fin) as f from Gavazuk
>     where ('2012-12-12') between start and fin
>    union all
>     select distinct (fin) from gavazuk,a
>     where a.f+1 between start and fin and start <= '2012-12-12'
> )
> select max(f) >= '2012-12-18' from a;
>
> -- this version treats ('2012-12-01','2012-12-10') ('2012-12-11','2012-12-13')
> -- as non-contiguous
>
> with recursive a as (
>     select max (fin) as f from Gavazuk
>     where ('2012-12-12') between start and fin
>    union all
>     select distinct (fin) from gavazuk,a
>     where a.f between start and fin-1 and start <= '2012-12-12'
> )
> select max(f) >= '2012-12-18' from a;
>
>
Cunning, also much more elegant and concise than my solutions!

Cheers,
Gavin




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