Re: Intervals and ISO 8601 duration

From: Ken Tanzer <ken(dot)tanzer(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien(dot)flaesch(at)4js(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intervals and ISO 8601 duration
Date: 2023-01-13 22:17:48
Message-ID: CAD3a31XW8iqrZ+uB7if+YUgRjk_=9YQOJRJVBc5__yGRsgypQA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 7:08 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

What Postgres actually stores for an interval is three fields:
> months, days, and microseconds.

Is there a way to view/extract this raw data for any given interval?

(I'm asking because of an issue that came up about intervals that were
"equal but not identical.")

Cheers,
Ken

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