Re: Why overlaps is not working

From: "Andrus" <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why overlaps is not working
Date: 2006-11-09 15:47:42
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> Why not just subtract/add 1, so that the check includes the boundary
> dates?
>
> Like so;
> select 1 where ('2006-10-31'::date -1, '9999-12-31'::date +1) OVERLAPS
> ('2006-10-16'::DATE -1, '2006-10-31':: DATE +1)

Alban,

thank you. I use only dates as OVERLAPS arguments.
I changed all my WHERE clauses from

WHERE (a,b) OVERLAPS (c,d)

to

WHERE (a-1,b+1) OVERLAPS (c-1,d+1)

Will this give correct results ?

Andrus.

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