Re: [HACKERS] date/time problem in v6.5.3 and 7.0.0 ...

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
Cc: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] date/time problem in v6.5.3 and 7.0.0 ...
Date: 2000-01-19 01:35:18
Message-ID: 20000119103518I.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > > I can add days to now(), but not subtract?
>
> The problem is that it is meaningful to subtract two absolute times,
> giving a delta time as a result, *and* it is meaningful to subtract a
> delta time from an absolute time, giving another absolute time as a
> result.

It would be nice if we could decide '30 days' is a delta time because
it is not suitable for an absolute time representation. Would it be
hard?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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