On 10/5/06, Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: regression=# select ('2006-09-15 23:59:00'::timestamp - '2006-09-01 09:30:41'::timestamp);?column? --14 days 14:28:19
(1 row) should be reporting '350:28:19' instead. This is a hack that was done to minimize the changes in the regression test expected outputs when we changed type interval from months/
seconds to months/days/seconds.But I wonder whether it wasn't a dumb idea. It is certainly inconsistent, as noted in the code comments. I'm tempted to propose that we remove the justify_hours call, and tell
anyone who really wants the old results to apply justify_hours() to the subtraction result for themselves.Not sure what the fallout would be, though.I suspect there's applications out there that are relying on that
being nicely formated for display purposes.I agree it should be removed, but we might need a form of backwardscompatibility for a version or two...I am personally of the opinion that display logic should never be put into the database. Applications that rely on the database formatting - that is tightly coupling your application to the database which does not follow good programming principles.
None-the-less, the feature would be nice and may be very valuable for reporting.== Aaron Bono Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
http://www.aranya.com http://codeelixir.com==
