Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> After gathering that there will probably be some other changes before
> release that will require an initdb (even without catversion bump), and
> after reexamining the issue, I think it's trivial and uncontroversial to
> fix the datetime issues:
For the benefit of anyone else finding this hard to read, I've
reformatted as
*** src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql.orig Tue Feb 24 11:10:16 2009
--- src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql Tue Jun 9 14:21:37 2009
***************
*** 160,171 ****
RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT
AS
$$SELECT
! CASE WHEN $2 = -1 /* default typmod */
! THEN null
WHEN $1 IN (1083, 1114, 1184, 1266) /* time, timestamp, same + tz */
! THEN $2
WHEN $1 IN (1186) /* interval */
! THEN $2 & 65535
ELSE null
END$$;
--- 160,171 ----
RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT
AS
$$SELECT
! CASE WHEN $1 IN (1082) /* date */
! THEN 0
WHEN $1 IN (1083, 1114, 1184, 1266) /* time, timestamp, same + tz */
! THEN CASE WHEN $2 = -1 THEN 6 ELSE $2 END
WHEN $1 IN (1186) /* interval */
! THEN CASE WHEN $2 = -1 THEN 6 ELSE $2 & 65535 END
ELSE null
END$$;
I would suggest coding the inner cases as
CASE WHEN $2 < 0 THEN ...default...
since the general practice in the C code is to treat any negative
value as meaning "unspecified". Otherwise, +1.
regards, tom lane
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