Om dubbel werk te voorkomen, zijn hier de gegevens (ik heb het inclusieve bovengrensvak vervangen door een exclusief, wat vaker voorkomt, IMHO):
-- CREATE SCHEMA tmp;
DROP TABLE tmp.gaps CASCADE;
CREATE TABLE tmp.gaps
( id INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY -- surrogate key
, ztype CHAR(1) NOT NULL
, start_datetime TIMESTAMP NOT NULL -- lower boundary := inclusive
, end_datetime TIMESTAMP NOT NULL -- upper boundary := exclusive
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX gaps_forward ON tmp.gaps(ztype,start_datetime);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX gaps_backward ON tmp.gaps(ztype,end_datetime);
INSERT INTO tmp.gaps(id,ztype,start_datetime,end_datetime) VALUES
(1,'a', '2012-01-11 00:00:00', '2012-01-15 00:00:00' )
,(2,'a', '2012-01-18 00:00:00', '2012-01-21 00:00:00' )
,(3,'b', '2012-01-14 00:00:00', '2012-01-20 00:00:00' )
,(4,'c', '2012-01-10 00:00:00', '2012-01-16 00:00:00' )
,(5,'d', '2012-01-11 00:00:00', '2012-01-21 00:00:00' )
,(6,'e', '2012-01-11 00:00:00', '2012-01-15 00:00:00' ) -- added this
,(7,'e', '2012-01-15 00:00:00', '2012-01-21 00:00:00' ) -- and this
;
-- SELECT * FROM tmp.gaps;
UPDATE:hier komt de CTE.In de eerste UNION voeg ik twee nep-intervallen toe aan de linker- en rechterkant van de gewenste (12-jan - 19-jan)-interval.
Per ztype tel ik het totaal aantal intervallen. Dit moet er één zijn als er geen gaten zijn, twee als er één gat is, enzovoort. Dit zal ook hiaten vinden voor ztype's die geen records hebben in het gewenste interval.
-- EXPLAIN ANALYZE
WITH RECURSIVE meuk(ztype,start_datetime,end_datetime) AS (
-- For every possible "ztype" add two dummie records
-- just before and just after our wanted interval.
WITH plus2 AS (
SELECT g0.ztype,g0.start_datetime,g0.end_datetime FROM tmp.gaps g0
WHERE (g0.start_datetime <= '2012-01-12 00:00:00' AND g0.end_datetime >= '2012-01-12 00:00:00')
OR (g0.start_datetime >= '2012-01-12 00:00:00' AND g0.end_datetime <= '2012-01-19 00:00:00')
OR (g0.start_datetime <= '2012-01-19 00:00:00' AND g0.end_datetime >= '2012-01-19 00:00:00')
UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT g1.ztype, '1900-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp, '2012-01-12 00:00:00'::timestamp FROM tmp.gaps g1
UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT g2.ztype, '2012-01-19 00:00:00'::timestamp, '2100-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp FROM tmp.gaps g2
)
SELECT p0.ztype,p0.start_datetime,p0.end_datetime
FROM plus2 p0
-- the start of a stretch: there is no older overlapping
-- (or touching) interval
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM plus2 nx
WHERE nx.ztype = p0.ztype
AND nx.start_datetime < p0.start_datetime -- older
AND nx.end_datetime >= p0.start_datetime -- touching or overlapping
)
UNION
SELECT mk.ztype
, LEAST(mk.start_datetime,p1.start_datetime)
, GREATEST(mk.end_datetime,p1.end_datetime)
FROM plus2 p1
, meuk mk
WHERE p1.ztype = mk.ztype
AND (p1.start_datetime >= mk.start_datetime AND p1.start_datetime <= mk.end_datetime AND p1.end_datetime > mk.end_datetime)
)
SELECT ztype, COUNT(*)-1 AS ngap
FROM meuk mk
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM meuk nx
WHERE nx.ztype = mk.ztype
AND (nx.start_datetime,nx.end_datetime) OVERLAPS( mk.start_datetime,mk.end_datetime)
AND (nx.end_datetime - nx.start_datetime) > (mk.end_datetime - mk.start_datetime)
)
GROUP BY ztype
ORDER BY ztype
;
Het maken van de uiteindelijke som wordt overgelaten als een oefening voor de lezer;-)
RESULTATEN:
ztype | ngap
-------+------
a | 1
b | 1
c | 1
d | 0
e | 0
(5 rows)