Text to interval conversion can silently truncate data

From: Jack Christensen <jack(at)jackchristensen(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Text to interval conversion can silently truncate data
Date: 2015-07-01 20:30:06
Message-ID: 55944DCE.4090601@jackchristensen.com
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jack=# select '1.51 years'::interval = '1.52 years'::interval;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)

This is surprising. Once I looked at the C code for Interval it makes
more sense given that it cannot represent fractional years, months, or
days. Wouldn't it make more sense to raise an invalid input error than
to silently truncate data?

Jack

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