Download the contrib module .tgz from PGFoundry and check out the readme. Syntax is explained therein. It's a multi-step process, it appears. I don't especially care for the term 'full disjunction' to describe this operation, but it seems to be an understood relational operation. -- Brandon Aiken CS/IT Systems Engineer -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Broersma Jr Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:30 AM To: Richard Broersma Jr; General PostgreSQL List Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.2 contrib. "Full Disjunction" > 1) what is its application? I guess I found part of my "laymans" answer: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~yaron/Presentations/pods2003.ppt#468,39,Examp le > 2) how is it used? Maybe this question should have been, what is the syntax? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly