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From: Артем Анисимов <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #7722: extract(epoch from age(...)) appears to be broken
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:16:14 +0400
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Dear Mr. Herrera and Mr. Momjian,

thank you for your feedback and for explaining that age() better not be used.

On Monday 03 December 2012 03:05:57 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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].

On Monday 03 December 2012 21:17:00 Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Best regargs,
Artem Anisimov.



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