Re: Ambiguous behaviour of age(timestamp)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kouber Saparev" <kouber(at)saparev(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Ambiguous behaviour of age(timestamp)
Date: 2004-12-01 20:01:16
Message-ID: 18340.1101931276@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kouber Saparev" <kouber(at)saparev(dot)com> writes:
> I think the documentation is misleading, because AGE(timestamp) is actually
> converted to AGE(current_date, timestamp), and not to AGE(now(), timestamp).

Well, it says "Subtract from today", which I'd interpret as meaning
"current_date" not "now", but I made it say "Subtract from current_date"
just to be sure.

regards, tom lane

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