Tom Lane wrote:
> Alban Hertroys <alban@magproductions.nl> writes:
>
>>I'd say "unique constraint violation" right here (provided there's a
>>unique constraint on this column, of course). The order in which these
>>are inserted/updated doesn't seem to matter either. I'm afraid I'm still
>>missing the point...
>
> The point is that btree depends on a number of assumptions about the
> behavior of the operators in an operator class, and one of those
> assumptions is that "equality" is transitive.
So, referring back to your example you mean that though B overlaps A,
and C overlaps B, C doesn't overlap A and thus they're not transitive.
I see.
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