Postgres Range Type Support for Laravel 7

The PosgreSQL range types package by @belamov provides range type support to Eloquent for the Postgres database:

Schema::create('table', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    // ...
    $table->dateRange('date_range');
    $table->timestampRange('timestamp_range');
    $table->floatRange('float_range');
    // for int4range
    $table->integerRange('integer_range');
    // for int8range
    $table->bigIntegerRange('integer_range');

    // you can add any modifications
    // $table->dateRange('date_range')->nullable();
    // $table->dateRange('date_range')->default('[2010-01-01,2010-01-02)');
});

The main features of this package include:

• Extended Laravel’s PostgresGrammar and PostgresConnection classes to provide a fluent API for range columns
• Support for the following Postgres range types: daterange, tsrange, numrange, intrange, and timerange.
• A number of query build macros for convenience (i.e., whereRangeContains($left, $right)
• Model property casting

The model property casting provided by this package provides convenience for working with ranges on model instances. For example:

use Belamov\PostgresRange\Ranges\IntegerRange;

$range = new IntegerRange(10, 20, '[', ')');

$range->from(); // 10
$range->to(); // 20
(string) $range; // [10,20)
$range->forSql(); // '[10,20)'

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub at belamov/postgres-range. The package has an excellent blog post to bring you up to speed on the powerful features available in Postgres’ range types: Ranges in Laravel 7 using PostgreSQL.