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Subject: Re: Messy Casts, Is there a better way?
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Larry,

> If I do that, and enter '72 months' in the contract_term field, how
> can
> I convince PostgreSQL to output the interval back in months?  It
> wants
> to give me '5 Years'.  

That's on the TODO list, I'm afraid.  From the sound of it, you should
stick with your current schema and custom function.

-Josh Berkus