Re: operator exclusion constraints

Nathan Boley <npboley@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Boley <npboley@gmail.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-11-01T23:06:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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