Re: Why overlaps is not working - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jorge Godoy
Subject Re: Why overlaps is not working
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In response to Re: Why overlaps is not working  (Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>)
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Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com> writes:

>> In my application second and fourth parameters can be NULL which means
>> forever.
>> It this best solution ?
>> How many times this is slower than expression in where clause?
>
> I am not sure if this would work for you, but instead of using NULL to
> represent infinity, why not use 'infinity' to represent infinity?

If he casts all his dates to timestamps then this might be a good option.


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Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy@gmail.com>

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