Re: Re: Data type confusion

Tom,

> Curiously enough, ANSI doesn't define an INTERVAL-divided-by-INTERVAL
> function either. Also, it rather looks like ANSI adopted the
> position
> Peter E. expressed:
>
> Year-month intervals are mutually comparable only with other
> year-
> month intervals. [...]
> Day-time intervals are mutually comparable only with other
> day-
> time intervals. [...]
> Operations involving items of type datetime require that the
> date-
> time items be mutually comparable. Operations involving
> items of
> type interval require that the interval items be mutually
> compara-
> ble.

Hmmm ... does this mean that I couldn't divide '1 year' by '1 week'? I
can certaily see not allowing division of '1 year' by '28 seconds' as it
spares us a whole bunch of calendar-generated fuzziness.

It seems to me that:

years,months,weeks,days / years,months,weeks,days is OK, and
days,hours,minutes,seconds / days,hours,minutes,seconds is also easy,
but
years,months,weeks / hours,minutes,seconds is where we get in trouble.

So I propose that we suppot the first two and disallow the third.

Thus I think that we can adhere to the spec, while still providing the
functionality developers want and avoiding a whole lot of '5 months 11
minutes' type headaches.

-Josh

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