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Re: Storing a time interval

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On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:12:59PM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 11/8/19 11:57 AM, Michael Lewis wrote:
> > You certainly could choose to store as??tstzrange, but why not use two
> > fields?
> > 
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/rangetypes.html
> 
> I would lean more to a composite type:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/rowtypes.html
> 
> Range types are built around looking for values within the range, whereas
> the OP is looking for two discrete values. The two field method you suggest
> above also encapsulates that.
> 
Thanks folks. 

After thinking over both your sugestions, I beleive teh optimum way to do this
may look like:


CREATE TYPE po_dates AS (
    po_isssued_date        timestamptz,
	discount_last_date     timestamptz,
	net_date               timestamptz
	);

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