Re: BUG #16939: Plural interval for negative singular

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:13:29PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 01:06:16PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 01:02:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:45:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> I agree with Noah's opinion that we should stick to the historical
> > > >> behavior in the interval I/O functions. There is not enough solidity
> > > >> in the "this is grammatically wrong" argument to justify taking any
> > > >> risk of application breakage, and it seems like there is some risk of
> > > >> that there.
> > >
> > > > Are you saying we should revert the patch and leave the plurals
> > > > inconsistent in different places? We were already expressing -1 as
> > > > singular in most of the places I saw.
>
> Which places did you find? I used the following to check for code like you
> were adding, but it probably missed things:
>
> $ git grep '"s"' 5da9868^ | grep abs
> 5da9868^:src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c: (abs(sec) != 1 || fsec != 0) ? "s" : "");
> 5da9868^:src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/interval.c: (abs(sec) != 1 || fsec != 0) ? "s" : "");

Yes, I found the same like you did. Are you saying we should remove the
abs() calls here so we are consistent?

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