Re: Variable constants ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Variable constants ?
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Msg-id alpine.LNX.2.20.1908160726350.11183@salmo.appl-ecosys.com
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In response to Re: Variable constants ?  (Charles Clavadetscher <clavadetscher@swisspug.org>)
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Charles Clavadetscher wrote:

> That would be a range with an empty upper bound. Let's say that the rate
> is valid since 2019-08-14 then the range would look like
> [2019-08-14,)
> A query to find the current rate would look like:
>
> SELECT rate
> FROM labor_rate_mult
> WHERE validity @> CURRENT_DATE;
>
> Here you can find documentation on the range types (cool stuff I believe):
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/rangetypes.html

Charles,

Interesting. Certainly worth considering the next time an application needs
a range of dates.

Regards,

Rich



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