Re: INTERVAL output format for iso_8601 is without dashes

[Benjamin Kröger]

PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> writes:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-INTERVAL-OUTPUT
The output format for mixed Interval in style specification iso_8601 is
documented incorrectly.
The documentation says `P-1Y-2M3D​T-4H-5M-6S` while in reality there are no
dashes: `P1Y2M3D​T4H5M6S`

It looks correct to me:

regression=# set intervalstyle TO iso_8601;
SET
regression=# select '-1 year -2 mons +3 days -04:05:06'::interval;
       interval
---------------------
  P-1Y-2M3DT-4H-5M-6S
(1 row)

well, judging vom the columns `Year-Month Interval` and `Day-Time 
Interval` I didn't expect the input for the column `Mixed Interval` to 
have negative dimensions (since the other two are positive dimensions 
only). granted, I missed the positive three days :)

It might help to see the input values that led to the documented output 
values. If you look e.g. at the mixed interval output for style 
`postgres_verbose`, all dimensions are signed exactly opposite to the 
`iso_8601` style.