Hi everyone!
I'm new around here, so please forgive me if this is a bit trivial. It
seems that generate_series() won't generate time stamp ranges. I
googled around and didn't see anything handy, so I wrote this out and
thought I'd share and see if perhaps there was a better way to do it:
SELECT tstzrange((lag(a) OVER()), a, '[)')
FROM generate_series('2012-09-16 12:00:00'::timestamp, '2012-09-17
12:00:00', '1 hour')
AS a OFFSET 1;
Basically, it's generating a series of time stamps one hour apart, then
using the previous record and the current record to construct the
TSTZRANGE value. It's offset 1 to skip the first record, since there is
no previous record to pair with it.
If you were looking at Josh Berkus' example at
http://lwn.net/Articles/497069/ you might use it like this to generate
data for testing and experimentation:
INSERT INTO room_reservations
SELECT 'F104', 'John', 'Another Talk',
tstzrange((lag(a) OVER()), a, '[)')
FROM generate_series('2012-09-16 12:00:00'::timestamp, '2012-09-17
12:00:00', '1 hour')
AS a OFFSET 1;
Thanks!
-- Wolfe Whalen wolfe@quios.net