Re: OVERLAPS

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:22:20PM +0300, Alex Bolenok wrote:
> peroon=# SELECT OVERLAPS('yesterday', 'today', 'today', 'tomorrow');
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "overlaps"

Try using it as an operator instead of a function:

test=# select ('yesterday'::timestamp, 'today'::timestamp) overlaps
('today'::timestamp, 'tomorrow'::timestamp);
overlaps
----------
f
(1 row)

> What am I doing wrong? Is there any way to make this function work?

Is the parser getting confused when it shouldn't (ie, if the functions were
called something beside "OVERLAPS" would it then work)?

mrc
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