Re: [SQL] Interval subtracting

From: Mark Dilger <pgsql(at)markdilger(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Interval subtracting
Date: 2006-03-01 23:10:18
Message-ID: 440629DA.6050504@markdilger.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, the question is whether justify_days has a sane definition that is
> different from this. Based on your example, I'm not seeing one.

Backwards compatibility is probably more important than sanity. Let's just
deprecate the existing functions and recommend that people use
justify_interval(...). By not changing the existing functions we can avoid a
certain amount of hell.

mark

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