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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Gary Clarke <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Interval unit format bug
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:04:58 -0400
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Gary Clarke <[email protected]> writes:
> Even if I set to verbose, Postgres outputs a very strange abbreviation for interval unit months that nobody else uses or would expect.

[ shrug... ]  This is documented:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-INTERVAL-OUTPUT

If we were to change it now, decades after the fact, what we'd mostly
accomplish is to break applications.

			regards, tom lane

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