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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Mark Dilger <pgsql@markdilger.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Interval subtracting
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:17:45 -0500
Message-ID: <16845.1141255065@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603012311.k21NBvX06405@candle.pha.pa.us>
References: <200603012311.k21NBvX06405@candle.pha.pa.us>

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Well, the question is whether justify_days has a sane definition that is
>> different from this.  Based on your example, I'm not seeing one.

> Uh, justify days only deals with days <--> months conversions.  There is
> no processing for hours.  I don't understand your comment.

So it won't guarantee that hours has a consistent sign.  If you're OK
with that, then that's fine, let's make justify_days work that way and
then provide a justify_interval that processes all three fields.

			regards, tom lane



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