| From: | Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Pablo Pumarino Delgado <pablopumarino(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #14294: Problem in generate series between dates |
| Date: | 2016-09-01 09:39:26 |
| Message-ID: | CAEZATCW_MMOhUYV_yjOm-RZ4wcCfYAwmcUvN=k096Vq57=dqpQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On 1 September 2016 at 00:39, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
>>>>>> "Dean" == Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
> >> Perhaps adding generate_series(date,date,interval) might work.
>
> Dean> On second thoughts, that would change the return type of some
> Dean> existing queries, which would be problematic.
>
> But as this bug report is showing, those existing queries are at best
> fragile and at worst silently wrong...
>
Hmm, maybe, but since this is timezone-dependent, the existing code
might be perfectly safe in the user's part of the world. I don't
really have a feel for how likely this is to break people's code, but
I think it's something we have to consider.
Regards,
Dean
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