Re: Check set of date intervals - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Check set of date intervals
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Msg-id 20100527102713.GC6907@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Check set of date intervals  (Anton Gavazuk <antongavazuk@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Check set of date intervals  ("A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>)
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In response to Anton Gavazuk :
> Hi all,
> 
> have such relation A:
> 
> PERIOD_ID | DATE_START | DATE_END | OTHER_ATTRIBUTES...
>       1         | 01.01.2010      |  01.02.2010 ....
>       2         | 03.02.2010      |  04.03.2010 .....
> ......
> 
> I want to search among periods for the set of periods which completely covers
> passed search period.
> As example - if I pass search period '15.01.2010 to 15.02.2010' the result set
> must be empty because there is gap between 01.02 and 03.02.
> 
> please, suggest an idea how to implement this in SQL without writing a
> procedure.

There are a really nice additional contrib module from Jeff Davis,
described here:

http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2010/03/09/temporal-postgresql-roadmap/

Regards, Andreas
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