Re: A better BETWEEN for DATEs, TIMEs and TIMESTAMPs? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Reg Me Please
Subject Re: A better BETWEEN for DATEs, TIMEs and TIMESTAMPs?
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Msg-id 200901142259.39548.regmeplease@gmail.com
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In response to Re: A better BETWEEN for DATEs, TIMEs and TIMESTAMPs?  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
Responses Re: A better BETWEEN for DATEs, TIMEs and TIMESTAMPs?
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On Wednesday 14 January 2009 22:38:07 Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 13:35 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > I think the best solution is to make first-class interval types (for
> > time as well as other types). Those intervals can then have operators
> > like "contains" and "contained by" which would solve your problem.
> >
> > Additionally, it would allow lots of other interesting operations, like
> > overlaps and intersects.
>
> I wrote such an interval type here, called "period" (to avoid confusion
> with the SQL INTERVAL type):
>
> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/temporal
>
> Regards,
>     Jeff Davis

I got some compilation error (I run Ubuntu) that needs investigation.
From the documentation it seems exactly what I was looking for!

I would put this thing among the official contribs: any chance?

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