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Gary Clarke <gary@onedb.online> writes:
> Even if I set to verbose, Postgres outputs a very strange abbreviation f=
or interval unit months that nobody else uses or would expect.

[ shrug... ]  This is documented:

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

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

			regards, tom lane