Re: plpgsql arrays

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> wrote:
>> I'm writing a plpgsql function that effectively does a merge join on the
>> results of two queries.

> Why not just use SQL to do the join?

Because the merge condition is:

WHERE l1.start <= l2.end AND l2.start <= l1.end

and merge joins in postgres only currently cope with the case where the
merge condition is an equals relationship.

Oh, hang on, I think I saw something in the docs about what conditions can
be used in a merge...

Matthew

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