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>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

TL> So this just reduces to WHERE tstzrange(s, e) @> now().

Thank you!  I forgot about the range types.

I may even switch to a single range column instead of the separate start
and end columns.

-JimC
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