Re: proposal: rounding up time value less than its unit.

David Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> TBH I've also been wondering whether any of these proposed cures are
>> better than the disease. The changes that can be argued to make the
>> behavior more sane are also ones that introduce backwards compatibility
>> issues of one magnitude or another. And I do not have a lot of sympathy
>> for "let's not change anything except to throw an error in a case that
>> seems ambiguous". That's mostly being pedantic, not helpful, especially
>> seeing that the number of field complaints about it is indistinguishable
>> from zero.

> Then what does it matter that we'd choose to error-out?

The number of complaints about the *existing* behavior is indistinguishable
from zero (AFAIR anyway). It does not follow that deciding to throw an
error where we did not before will draw no complaints.

regards, tom lane