Re: operator exclusion constraints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Boley
Subject Re: operator exclusion constraints
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Msg-id 6fa3b6e20911011506j324b68c6x7079870d1a893a05@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: operator exclusion constraints  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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> After reading the docs in the patch I don't believe you're going to all
> this trouble to ensure two circles don't overlap. Can you give some
> better examples of what you're trying to achieve and why anyone else
> would care? (I'm busy, so are others).
>

Non overlapping time intervals is one use case - think about room
scheduling. I personally want to use it to ensure the consistency of
genomic annotations.

-Nathan


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