Re: Programmatic access to interval units

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Nelson Green <nelsongreen84(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Programmatic access to interval units
Date: 2014-12-02 21:48:54
Message-ID: CAHyXU0xxy6Qub7DudSnwrJyD--d15PQKDd=tt7X547kaz5SjmQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Nelson Green <nelsongreen84(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> In the line: IF LOWER(_unit) NOT IN (SELECT interval_unit ..., I would
> rather
> query a catalog table for the interval unit names if possible. That would
> then
> compensate for any changes to those values in the future.
>
> When I meant do this in C, I was referring to rewriting this function in C
> instead of Pl/pgSQL.
>
> I hope this helps you understand what I am asking, and apologies for not
> being
> more specific up front.

I was the one that was confused -- heh. I mis-understood the original
email and thought you were trying to validate interval output vs
interval input.

merlin

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