Re: [HACKERS] timestamp subtraction (was Re: formatting intervals with to_char)

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Aaron Bono <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <jimn(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, gdavis(at)refractions(dot)net, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] timestamp subtraction (was Re: formatting intervals with to_char)
Date: 2006-10-09 22:09:00
Message-ID: 200610091509.01523.josh@agliodbs.com
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Jim,

> I agree in general, except most languages have terrible support for
> time/date data, so I can see a much bigger case for the database being
> able to do it (and it's not like we'll be removing justify_*). Be that
> as it may, there are probably apps out there that will break if this is
> just changed.

Many.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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