Thanks. I tested the standard Win32 distribution of 8.3.6. The same happens on 8.2. But on 8.0 it works.
When I don't use milliseconds, then it works. Will 8.4 work fine on Win32 again? Thanks, Otto 2009/5/23 Ludwig Kniprath <lud...@kni-online.de> > Scott Marlowe schrieb: > >> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Christophe <x...@thebuild.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On May 23, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Daniel Verite wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I don't know why this query returns false: >>>>> SELECT '20040506 070809.010000'::timestamp(6) - '20010203 >>>>> 040506.007000'::timestamp(6) = '1188 day 3 hour 3 minute 3 second 3 >>>>> millisecond'::interval; >>>>> If I just subtract the two timestamps, its result is the interval I >>>>> specified. >>>>> What may cause this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> It works for me: >>>> >>>> test=> SELECT '20040506 070809.010000'::timestamp(6) - >>>> '20010203 040506.007000'::timestamp(6)= >>>> '1188 day 3 hour 3 minute 3 second 3 millisecond'::interval; >>>> ?column? ---------- >>>> t >>>> (1 row) >>>> >>>> >>> Could this be due to the OP's build of PG using floating point >>> timestamps? >>> >>> >> >> That's what I'm thinking >> > Me too, a testquery-result on a Windows-System with version "PostgreSQL > 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400": > > SELECT ('20040506 070809.010000'::timestamp(6) - '20010203 > 040506.007000'::timestamp(6) - '1188 day 3 hour 3 minute 3 second 3 > millisecond'::interval) * 1e10; > > => -00:01:28.220986 > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >