Re: temporal period type and select distinct gives equality error

In article <arturo-26A95E.00305123012011@news.gmane.org>,
 arturo@pleeque.com (Arturo Perez) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the temporal contrib package that creates the period type and
> a bunch of operators in postgresql 8.4.5.  I plan to use the same code
> against 9.0 so if anything differs between the two regarding this issue
> please let me know.
>
> In psql the \do command shows this
>  public | =    | period | period  | boolean  |
>
> and yet when I do a select distinct with a join I get
>
> QueryLogger - *** error.
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not identify an equality
> operator for type period
>
> If I leave the period column out of the select list then it works fine.
>
> Did I install it wrong?  Or is something else going on?
>
> tia
> arturo

No suggestions from anyone?  Anyone out there? :-)

-arturo