Re: to_char() and negative intervals

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:43:10AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > > Someone on IRC just reported this to_char() failure with negative
> > > > intervals:
> > >
> > > I think Karel wanted to remove to_char(interval) altogether.
> >
> > Yes, the notice about it is already in 7.4 docs. Maybe we can remove
> > it in 7.5/8.0. Comments?
>
> I don't see how we can remove it in 8.0 unless we require an initdb.
> What we could do is to throw an error/warning in the code and remove it
> completely in 8.1.

If we force an initdb for some other reason during beta, we can remove
to_char(interval) at that point too ...

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