Hi. I've got lots of tables with start and end dates in them, and I'm trying to learn how to work with them as date ranges (which seem fantastic!). I've noticed that the daterange() function seems to create ranges with an inclusive lower bound, and an exclusive upper bound. For example:
SELECT
reg_spc_date,
reg_spc_date_end,
daterange(reg_spc_date,reg_spc_date_end)
FROM reg_spc
LIMIT 5;
reg_spc_date | reg_spc_date_end | daterange
--------------+------------------+-------------------------
2012-04-05 | 2013-10-21 | [2012-04-05,2013-10-21)
2013-10-28 | | [2013-10-28,)
2013-11-01 | | [2013-11-01,)
2012-10-19 | 2013-11-01 | [2012-10-19,2013-11-01)
2005-03-29 | 2013-10-31 | [2005-03-29,2013-10-31)
(5 rows)
So here are my questions:
1) Is there anyway to control this behavior of daterange(), or is it just best to (for example) add 1 to the upper bound argument if I want an inclusive upper bound?
2) This is purely cosmetic, but is there anyway to control the output formatting of a daterange to show the upper bound as inclusive? So that daterange(d1,d2) would display as [d1,d2-1] rather than [d1,d2)?
3) I couldn't find this discussed in the documentation, and specifically didn't find the daterange() function documented, including on this page where I might have expected it: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-range.html. Is it somewhere else where I'm not finding it?
Thanks in advance!
Ken
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