Selecting time periods

Hiya List,

  OK I'm stumped.  More than likely this is easy but I cant work it out.

Debian 4
Postgresql 8.3.1

I'm trying to insert some records into various tables (that bit works
ok) but now I want to have another table that records the shift that the
record was inserted on.

  table shift_times ( shift_id pk, shift text, start time, finish time,
days varchar[])

  data
  1 A 7:00 19:00 {0,1,2}
  2 B 19:00 7:00 {0,1,2,3}
  3 C 7:00 19:00 {3,4,5}
  4 D 19:00 7:00 {3,4,5,6}

  Now what I want to do is basically just select the shift and insert
some data into another table linking shift and record_id etc.

  My problem is trying to workout the select statement for getting the
shift.

  I've tried SELECT shift from shift_times where '17:00' between start
AND finish;
  Which works for A and C but if I change the 17:00 to 19:30 it returns
no rows.

  I havent even tried thinking on the days yet.
  As this is only in a test dbase I can change the table/s etc if need be

I realize I could do it with if/else statements on the trigger/s but I
want to make it as easy as possible for someone else to change the shift
start/finish times/days.


Anyway if anyone has ideas or can point me to a web page/etc it would be
appreciated.

Peter Jackson