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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Milan Novotny <xnovm149@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Summing of INTERVAL returns incorrect number of days and hours
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:19:36 -0400
Message-ID: <346945.1743517176@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Milan Novotny <xnovm149@gmail.com> writes:
> 581 days 61:06:36.805|
> --> should be 583 days ..

If you don't like that result, justify_hours() might help you.
But interval summing doesn't assume that it can always overflow
seconds into days, because a day isn't always 24 hours.

			regards, tom lane





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