Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Harco de Hilster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > What is the definition of a merge-joinable condition?
> 
> Equality on a sortable datatype.
> 
> > Can I create an type/operator that compares both records that is 
> > considered merge-joinable?
> 
> I think you could do something involving a time interval datatype that
> considers "overlap" as equality and does something reasonable for
> sorting non-overlapping intervals.  

How could a non-transitive property ever be merge joinable though?

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greg


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