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To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: BUG #7722: extract(epoch from age(...)) appears to be broken
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 21:17:00 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 03:05:57AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> > The following bug has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Bug reference: 7722
> > Logged by: Artem Anisimov
> > Email address: [email protected]
> > PostgreSQL version: 9.2.1
> > Operating system: Slackware Linux 14.0/amd64
> > Description:
> >
> > The following to queries give the same result (first arguments to age()
> > differ in the day number only, second arguments are identical):
> >
> > select extract(epoch from age('2012-11-23 16:41:31', '2012-10-23
> > 15:56:10'));
> >
> > and
> >
> > select extract(epoch from age('2012-11-22 16:41:31', '2012-10-23
> > 15:56:10'));
>
> alvherre=# select age('2012-11-22 16:41:31', '2012-10-23 15:56:10');
> age
> ------------------
> 30 days 00:45:21
> (1 fila)
>
> alvherre=# select age('2012-11-23 16:41:31', '2012-10-23 15:56:10');
> age
> ----------------
> 1 mon 00:45:21
> (1 fila)
>
> The problem is that age() returns 30 days in one case, and "one month" in the
> other; extract() then considers the month as equivalent to 30 days. This is
> documented as such, see [1].
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html
Wow, that is a weird case. In the first test, we count the number of
days because it is less than a full month. In the second case, we call
it a full month, but then forget how long it is. Not sure how we could
improve this.
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