Re: 7.3 interval casting broken (7.4 OK)

Does this affect all versions of 7.3?

John Griffiths

Tom Lane wrote:

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>>From: Tom Lane[SMTP:TGL(at)SSS(dot)PGH(dot)PA(dot)US]
>>Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:14:37 PM
>>To: elein
>>Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [BUGS] 7.3 interval casting broken (7.4 OK)
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>elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com> writes:
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>>The interval casting in 7.3 is ignoring precision.
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>Yeah, see this fix:
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>2003-01-08 19:58 tgl
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> * src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h: Add missing pg_proc entry for
> interval_scale(). The lack of this entry causes interval rounding
> not to work as expected in 7.3, for example SELECT
> '18:17:15.6'::interval(0) does not round the value. I did not
> force initdb, but one is needed to install the added row.
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>We couldn't back-patch that into 7.3 without an initdb, unfortunately.
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> regards, tom lane
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