Re: Why overlaps is not working - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrus
Subject Re: Why overlaps is not working
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Msg-id 003901c705d1$6fd767c0$6207eb50@acer
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In response to Re: Why overlaps is not working  (Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Why overlaps is not working  (Alban Hertroys <alban@magproductions.nl>)
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> If he casts all his dates to timestamps then this might be a good option.

Thank you.

where  (a::timestamp, coalesce(b, '99991231')::timestamp) overlaps
(c::timestamp, coalesce(d, '99991231')::timestamp)

would be simplest solution.

However

select (date '20050101'::timestamp, date '20060101'::timestamp) overlaps
(date '20060101'::timestamp, date '20070101'::timestamp)

returns false

So this cannot used for date overlapping.
Which sytax to use to substract/add a minute to make this correct?

Andrus.

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