Você pode fazer
UNION
em vez de. Assim você não gera linhas desnecessárias SELECT country, start_date,
CASE WHEN event_date BETWEEN start_date AND end_date
THEN event_date - 1
ELSE end_date
END AS end_date, event_date
FROM table1
UNION ALL
SELECT country, event_date, end_date, event_date
FROM table1
WHERE event_date BETWEEN start_date AND end_date
ORDER BY country, start_date, end_date, event_date
Aqui está um SQLFiddle demonstração
Resultado:
| country | start_date | end_date | event_date | |---------|------------|------------|------------| | A | 1960-01-01 | 1994-07-19 | 1994-07-20 | | A | 1994-07-20 | 1999-12-31 | 1994-07-20 | | B | 1926-01-01 | 1995-12-31 | (null) |