Re: tinterval or interval

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:52:31PM -0600, Mike Castle wrote:
> Am I missing something in the documentation that would explain to me how I
> could use a starttime/length combination (something like abstime/interval,
> or timestamp/interval) to check for overlaps like can be done with tinterval?

Ok. Apparently it's time to invest in a good SQL book before proceeding.
I did a web search and found SQL specs online (well, not the final
versions, but probably close enough).

And I figured out how to use the overlaps operator:

test=# select ('2000-11-21 08:00'::timestamp, '2000-11-21 09:00'::timestamp)
overlaps ('2000-11-21 08:59'::timestamp, '2000-11-21 10:00'::timestamp);

overlaps
----------
t
(1 row)

Probably an easier way to write that, but in the mean time....

I have noticed a difference between how overlaps work compared to && for
tinterval. With tinterval [8:00-9:00] is considered to overlap with
[9:00-10:00], while with overlaps, they don't:

test=# select tinterval '["2000-11-21 08:00" "2000-11-21 09:00"]' &&
tinterval '["2000-11-21 09:00" "2000-11-21 10:00"]';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)

test=# select ('2000-11-21 08:00'::timestamp, '2000-11-21 09:00'::timestamp)
overlaps ('2000-11-21 09:00'::timestamp, '2000-11-21 10:00'::timestamp);
overlaps
----------
f
(1 row)

Since I don't yet have a good book.... should that be considered to overlap
or not? My initial thoughts were that tinterval and timestamps/overlaps
would have the same semantics.

mrc
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