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

From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: Why overlaps is not working
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Msg-id 455834B7.3070205@magproductions.nl
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In response to Re: Why overlaps is not working  ("Andrus" <eetasoft@online.ee>)
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Andrus wrote:
>> If he casts all his dates to timestamps then this might be a good option.
>
> Thank you.
>
> where  (a::timestamp, coalesce(b, '99991231')::timestamp) overlaps
> (c::timestamp, coalesce(d, '99991231')::timestamp)
>
> would be simplest solution.

I thought the suggested solution was to use infinity, hence the
requirement to cast to timestamps.
That'd mean something along the lines of:

  where  (a::timestamp, coalesce(b, 'infinity')::timestamp) overlaps
  (c::timestamp, coalesce(d, 'infinity')::timestamp)

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