Re: Check set of date intervals

In response to A. Kretschmer :
> > please, suggest an idea how to implement this in SQL without writing a
> > procedure.
>
> There are a really nice additional contrib module from Jeff Davis,
> described here:
>
> http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2010/03/09/temporal-postgresql-roadmap/
>

short example, with your data:

test=# select * from rel_a;
id | start_date | end_date | p
----+------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------
1 | 01.01.2010 | 01.02.2010 | [01.01.2010 00:00:00 CET, 01.02.2010 00:00:00 CET)
2 | 03.02.2010 | 04.03.2010 | [03.02.2010 00:00:00 CET, 04.03.2010 00:00:00 CET)
(2 rows)

test=# select * from rel_a where contains(p, period('15.01.2010'::date, '15.02.2010'::date));
id | start_date | end_date | p
----+------------+----------+---
(0 rows)

test=# select * from rel_a where contains(p, period('15.01.2010'::date, '25.01.2010'::date));
id | start_date | end_date | p
----+------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------
1 | 01.01.2010 | 01.02.2010 | [01.01.2010 00:00:00 CET, 01.02.2010 00:00:00 CET)
(1 row)

The column p is created with:

test=# alter table rel_a add column p period;

and

test=# update rel_a set p = period(start_date, end_date);

Andreas
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