OVERLAPS Operator in PostgreSQL

OVERLAPS operator is another useful but rarely used PostgreSQL feature. It checks if two time ranges overlap. For example, this query returns true:

SELECT (DATE '2016-01-10', DATE '2016-02-01') OVERLAPS (DATE '2016-01-20', DATE '2016-02-10');

The endpoints of time ranges can be specified as:

• either dates (times or timestamps) like in the previous example,
• or as a date and an interval like in the next example.

SELECT (DATE '2016-01-10', INTERVAL '1 month') OVERLAPS (DATE '2016-01-20', INTERVAL '7 days');

Please note that if the end of the first time range is equal to the beginning of the second time range then the operator returns false.

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