Re: Bug 1500

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 15:56 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Alvaro,
>
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:04:14PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > SELECT to_char( INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'MI' ) || ' min';
> > > 2600 min
> >
> > Hmm, what if you wanted more than one literal string? Say "1 mon 3
> > days" ... your concatenation idea wouldn't work. ISTM the format string
> > should allow unconverted literals, so you would use
> >
> > SELECT to_char( INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'MI min' );
>
> Hmmm, good point.
>
> Question: how does to_char tell the difference between a code ("MI") and a
> code which is also part of a word? ("MIN").

It's pretty simple. to_char(..., 'MI "min"'). It's already supported by
to_char() format parser.

I think to_char(interval) should be support split interval to more
items, like:

to_char(INTERVAL '1d 3h 65s', 'HHh MIm SSs') ---> '27h 1m 5s'

Well, I'm going to check how difficult will be implement correct to_char
(interval).

Karel

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