How to find first free time in reservations table

问题:

Reservation table contains reservations start dates, start hours and durations. Start hour is by half hour increments in working hours 8:00 .. 18:00 in work days. Duration is also by half hour increments in day.

CREATE TABLE reservation (
  startdate date not null,  -- start date
  starthour numeric(4,1) not null , -- start hour 8 8.5 9 9.5  ..  16.5 17 17.5
  duration  Numeric(3,1) not null, -- duration by hours 0.5 1 1.5 .. 9 9.5 10
  primary key (startdate, starthour)
);

table structure can changed if required.

How to find first free half hour in table which is not reserved ? E.q if table contains

startdate   starthour  duration 
14          9           1              -- ends at 9:59
14          10          1.5            -- ends at 11:29, e.q there is 30 minute gap before next
14          12          2
14          16          2.5

result should be:

starthour  duration
11.5       0.5

Probably PostgreSql 9.2 window function should used to find first row whose starthour is greater than previous row starthour + duration
How to write select statement which returns this information ?

回答1:

Postgres 9.2 has range type and I would recommend to use them.

create table reservation (reservation tsrange);
insert into reservation values 
('[2012-11-14 09:00:00,2012-11-14 10:00:00)'), 
('[2012-11-14 10:00:00,2012-11-14 11:30:00)'), 
('[2012-11-14 12:00:00,2012-11-14 14:00:00)'), 
('[2012-11-14 16:00:00,2012-11-14 18:30:00)');

ALTER TABLE reservation ADD EXCLUDE USING gist (reservation WITH &&);

"EXCLUDE USING gist" creates index which disallows to inset overlapping entries. You can use the following query to find gaps (variant of vyegorov's query):

with gaps as (
  select 
    upper(reservation) as start, 
    lead(lower(reservation),1,upper(reservation)) over (ORDER BY reservation) - upper(reservation) as gap 
  from (
    select * 
    from reservation 
    union all values 
      ('[2012-11-14 00:00:00, 2012-11-14 08:00:00)'::tsrange), 
      ('[2012-11-14 18:00:00, 2012-11-15 00:00:00)'::tsrange)
  ) as x
) 
select * from gaps where gap > '0'::interval;

'union all values' masks out non working times hence you can make reservation between 8am and 18pm only.

Here is the result:

        start        |   gap    
---------------------+----------
 2012-11-14 08:00:00 | 01:00:00
 2012-11-14 11:30:00 | 00:30:00
 2012-11-14 14:00:00 | 02:00:00

Documentation links: - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/rangetypes.html "Range Types" - https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/7/73/Range-types-pgopen-2012.pdf

回答2:

Maybe not the best query, but it does what you want:

WITH
times AS (
    SELECT startdate sdate,
        startdate + (floor(starthour)||'h '||
           ((starthour-floor(starthour))*60)||'min')::interval shour,
        startdate + (floor(starthour)||'h '||
           ((starthour-floor(starthour))*60)||'min')::interval 
           + (floor(duration)||'h '||
             ((duration-floor(duration))*60)||'min')::interval ehour
      FROM reservation),
gaps AS (
    SELECT sdate,shour,ehour,lead(shour,1,ehour)
       OVER (PARTITION BY sdate ORDER BY shour) - ehour as gap
      FROM times)
SELECT * FROM gaps WHERE gap > '0'::interval;

Some notes:

1. It will be better not to separate time and data of the event. If you have to, then use standard types;
2. If it is not possible to go with standard types, create function to convert numeric hours into the time format.