[postgis-users] Using PosGIS in one dimension

[David William Bitner]

If you follow PostgreSQL development, you can see that 9.2 is bringing a
whole suite of range data types for dealing with one dimensional intervals
with the same expressivity as PostGIS. Not there yet, but coming soon....

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <alvaro at minin.es>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am interested in using some of the spatial operators to implement
> the interval algebra operations [1] in one dimension.
>
> My application is tagging of intervals in neurophysiological
> recordings, a little bit similar to what people do in genomics.
>
> I would like to know if it is possible, and whether PostGIS is also
> optimized for this scenario. A typical query is to retrieve all
> intervals of type A that are enclosed in intervals of type B.
>
> A few quick queries didn't return anything, and what I found about the
> INTERVAL datatype in Postgres[2] didn't fit our scenario so well,
> because they are using DATETIMEs and we need to use integer timestamps
> (4-byte integers are enough), as we are sampling time at 20000Hz.
>
> Any comments are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -á.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_interval_algebra
> [2]
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Dates_and_Times_in_PostgreSQL
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