From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A proposal for Interval Math
Date: 19 May 2002 21:58:03 +0100
Message-ID: <1021841886.1401.56.camel@linda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205191336.10383.josh@agliodbs.com>
References: <200205191336.10383.josh@agliodbs.com>
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 21:36, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Ah, you ask, but what about '7 months' / '3 days'? This requires the addtion
> of "Interval Rounding" to the Postgresql system.
As I understand the standard, this is an illegal operation, because the
two intervals are of incompatible types and a meaningful result is not
possible. I do not think anyone should try to implement it.
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