Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 06:39:26PM -0700, Bryn Llewellyn wrote:
> Your statement
>
>
> “months-to-days conversion is almost always an approximation, while the
> days to seconds conversion is almost always accurate.”
>
>
> is misleading. Any conversion like these (and also the “spill up” conversions
> that the justify_hours(), justify_days(), and justify_interval() built-in
> functions bring) are semantically dangerous because of the different rules for
> adding a pure months, a pure days, or a pure seconds interval to a timestamptz
> value.

We are trying to get the most reasonable output for fractional values
--- I stand by my statements.

> Unless you avoid mixed interval values, then it’s so hard (even though it is
> possible) to predict the outcomes of interval arithmetic. Rather, all you get
> is emergent behavior that I fail to see can be relied upon in deliberately
> designed application code. Here’s a telling example:

The point is that we will get unusual values, so we should do the best
we can.

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