On 2006-02-18, "A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
> am 18.02.2006, um 10:03:11 +0100 mailte Pailloncy Jean-Gerard folgendes:
>> I wonder how to have a sort of "uniq" index on date interval, such that
>> there is no date interval overlaping in the table.
>
> You can write a trigger to check the count of records which overlaps
> (start,end):
Doesn't work reliably due to the race condition, unless you lock the table
against conflicting inserts. The problem of course is that the trigger
doesn't see uncommitted rows from concurrent transactions.
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