Re: Why overlaps is not working

From: Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Andrus <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why overlaps is not working
Date: 2006-11-11 17:40:43
Message-ID: 87vellg9us.fsf@gmail.com
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Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:

>> In my application second and fourth parameters can be NULL which means
>> forever.
>> It this best solution ?
>> How many times this is slower than expression in where clause?
>
> I am not sure if this would work for you, but instead of using NULL to
> represent infinity, why not use 'infinity' to represent infinity?

If he casts all his dates to timestamps then this might be a good option.

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Jorge Godoy <jgodoy(at)gmail(dot)com>

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