Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 19473.1171729613@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>)
Responses Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL  (Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org>)
Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>)
Re: RFC: Temporal Extensions for PostgreSQL  ("Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@gmail.com>)
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net> writes:
> How easy/hard would it be to create unique indexes on tinterval (unique
> here meaning non-overlapping) ?

"Overlapping" is not an equality relation (it fails the transitive law),
so I'm not entirely sure what "unique" means in this context ... but I
can promise you you can't make it work with btree.
        regards, tom lane


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