Re: Non-Overlaping date interval index - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Non-Overlaping date interval index
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Msg-id 20060218093135.GA7415@webserv.wug-glas.de
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In response to Non-Overlaping date interval index  (Pailloncy Jean-Gerard <jg@rilk.com>)
Responses Re: Non-Overlaping date interval index
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am  18.02.2006, um 10:03:11 +0100 mailte Pailloncy Jean-Gerard folgendes:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how to have a sort of "uniq" index on date interval, such  that
> there is no date interval overlaping in the table.
>
> exemple:
> create table test (start timestamp, end timestamp);
> with the constraint: end > start

You can write a trigger to check the count of records which overlaps
(start,end):

Example:

test=# select * from foo;
 id |          s          |          e
----+---------------------+---------------------
  1 | 2006-01-01 00:00:00 | 2006-01-02 00:00:00
  2 | 2006-01-02 00:00:00 | 2006-01-03 00:00:00
  3 | 2006-01-03 00:00:00 | 2006-01-04 00:00:00
(3 rows)

test=# select count(*) from foo where (s,e) overlaps ('2006/01/05'::date, '2006/01/06'::date);
 count
-------
     0
(1 row)

test=# select count(*) from foo where (s,e) overlaps ('2006/01/01'::date, '2006/01/06'::date);
 count
-------
     3
(1 row)


Perhaps there are other solutions...

HTH, Andreas
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