Re: Ranges for well-ordered types

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ranges for well-ordered types
Date: 2006-06-10 20:15:21
Message-ID: 20060610201521.GA8916@wolff.to
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 23:51:58 +0900,
Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> wrote:
> Each row of this table represents the time range (from from_date to
> to_date) during which a teacher was assigned to a particular school.
> (Teachers can be assigned to more than one school at a time.) The
> check constraint guarantees that [from_date, to_date] represents a
> valid closed-closed interval (where the end points are included in
> the range). Two unique constraints are necessary to guarantee

I think you might want to reconsider your design. It works well for dates
because sets of dates are made of of isolated points and such sets are
both open and closed. If you are using time, I think it will be more convenient
to use a closed, open representation.

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Joshua D. Drake 2006-06-10 22:03:32 Re: TODO: Add pg_get_acldef(), pg_get_typedefault(), pg_get_attrdef(),
Previous Message Bruce Momjian 2006-06-10 19:46:49 Re: bison version