Re: Periods

Hello Vik, Paul,

On 2019-Jul-04, Vik Fearing wrote:

> I've been working on this as an extension instead.  It allows me to do some stuff in plpgsql which is much easier for
me.
> 
> https://github.com/xocolatl/periods/

Hmm, okay.

> I would love to have all this in core (especially since MariaDB 10.4
> just became the first open source database to get all of this
> functionality), but something is better than nothing.

Agreed on all accounts.

I think that the functionality in your patch is already integrated in
Paul's patch for temporal PK/FK elsewhere ... is that correct, or is
this patch orthogonal to that work?

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