Comments on: About http://thoughts.j-davis.com Ideas on Databases, Logic, and Language by Jeff Davis Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Davis http://thoughts.j-davis.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2341 Jeff Davis Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:01:00 +0000 http://thoughts.j-davis.com/?page_id=2#comment-2341 Hi! PERIOD is an extension, and it's available here: http://pgxn.org/dist/temporal/ or https://github.com/jeff-davis/PostgreSQL-Temporal I am also working on a feature for 9.2 called Range Types, which is like PERIOD, except available for many subtypes. For instance, PERIOD is like a range of TIMESTAMPTZ, but it's also useful for ranges of DATEs, ranges of NUMERICs, ranges of INTEGERs, etc. Because of some type system changes and other conveniences, Range Types requires core changes and thus will (hopefully) be a part of 9.2 out-of-the-box. Also, after Range Types is committed, I will try to make as much of it an extension as I can, so that people using 9.1 and before can benefit. Hi!

PERIOD is an extension, and it’s available here: http://pgxn.org/dist/temporal/ or https://github.com/jeff-davis/PostgreSQL-Temporal

I am also working on a feature for 9.2 called Range Types, which is like PERIOD, except available for many subtypes. For instance, PERIOD is like a range of TIMESTAMPTZ, but it’s also useful for ranges of DATEs, ranges of NUMERICs, ranges of INTEGERs, etc. Because of some type system changes and other conveniences, Range Types requires core changes and thus will (hopefully) be a part of 9.2 out-of-the-box.

Also, after Range Types is committed, I will try to make as much of it an extension as I can, so that people using 9.1 and before can benefit.

]]> By: Cymen Vig http://thoughts.j-davis.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-2340 Cymen Vig Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:46:38 +0000 http://thoughts.j-davis.com/?page_id=2#comment-2340 Your blog mentions the new PERIOD type quite a bit yet I am having difficulty determining if it made it into the PostgreSQL 9.0 or 9.1 release. Would you be able to answer that question? Thank you! Cymen Your blog mentions the new PERIOD type quite a bit yet I am having difficulty determining if it made it into the PostgreSQL 9.0 or 9.1 release. Would you be able to answer that question?

Thank you!
Cymen

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