Re: operator exclusion constraints

From: Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: operator exclusion constraints
Date: 2009-11-01 23:06:43
Message-ID: 6fa3b6e20911011506j324b68c6x7079870d1a893a05@mail.gmail.com
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> After reading the docs in the patch I don't believe you're going to all
> this trouble to ensure two circles don't overlap. Can you give some
> better examples of what you're trying to achieve and why anyone else
> would care? (I'm busy, so are others).
>

Non overlapping time intervals is one use case - think about room
scheduling. I personally want to use it to ensure the consistency of
genomic annotations.

-Nathan

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