If he casts all his dates to timestamps then this might be a good option.
Thank you. where (a::timestamp, coalesce(b, '99991231')::timestamp) overlaps (c::timestamp, coalesce(d, '99991231')::timestamp) would be simplest solution. However select (date '20050101'::timestamp, date '20060101'::timestamp) overlaps (date '20060101'::timestamp, date '20070101'::timestamp) returns false So this cannot used for date overlapping. Which sytax to use to substract/add a minute to make this correct?Andrus.