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From: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: time interval math
Date: 11 Feb 2012 03:18:43 GMT
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On 2012-02-09, Edward W. Rouse <erouse@comsquared.com> wrote:

>> the operation abs() is meaninless on the type interval
>> eg: what is abs( '1 month - 32 days + 24 hours'::interval )
>
> If you need to add 30 intervals together, then +- is not meaningless. 

if you stop reading after one line you miss the answer.


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