Re: to_char(interval) --- done?

--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 08:38:58 -0800 Josh Berkus
<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Karel,
>
>> IMHO nobody use it -- maybe we can keep it in sources for 7.4 and
>> mark it in docs as deprecated and remove it in 7.5.
>
> This seems to be consistent with my informal survey on PGSQL-SQL and on
># postgresql. Nobody seems to be using the current behavior.
>
>> The date/time and numbers formatting share parser only. The current
>> to_char(interval) is 20 lines of code only.
>
> I'm not surprised.
>
>> I want to write new library "libformattig", because I need to_char()
>> features and some new extensions in the others projects -- it means
>> in 7.5 will new to_char() code. The current code works without bugs,
>> but it is not ideal code.
>
> Please call on me if you want any additional help formulating a
> specification. While I am not in any position to help with the code, I
> do use INTERVAL, TIMESTAMP, TIME and DATE heavily and have strong
> opinions about usability.
>
I had a need that should(!) be in the archives. Just to reiterate my need:

I input a contract length, in months, and wanted to get it back out as
months. There is no current way to do this, so I store it as an INT and
concatenate the word months to do the
date arithmetic.

Thanks all for the input, I suspect I will leave the coding to someone like
Karel that knows the backend better than I do, and also is a better coder
than I am.

> Thanks!
>
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> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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