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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jimn@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: gdavis@refractions.net
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] timestamp subtraction (was Re: formatting intervals with to_char)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 15:09:00 -0700
Message-ID: <200610091509.01523.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061009215459.GT72517@nasby.net>
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	<20061009215459.GT72517@nasby.net>

Jim,

> I agree in  general, except most languages have terrible support for
> time/date data, so I can see a much bigger case for the database being
> able to do it (and it's not like we'll be removing justify_*). Be that
> as it may, there are probably apps out there that will break if this is
> just changed.

Many.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco



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