Re: BUG #1517: SQL interval syntax is accepted by the parser,

From: Roy Badami <roy(at)gnomon(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Roy Badami <roy(at)gnomon(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #1517: SQL interval syntax is accepted by the parser,
Date: 2005-03-20 15:46:50
Message-ID: 16957.39658.901071.438286@giles.gnomon.org.uk
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Roy> It would be

Roy> INTERVAL '1 1' DAY TO HOUR

Actually, it would be any one of the following:

INTERVAL '1 1' DAY TO HOUR
INTERVAL '1 1:00' DAY TO MINUTE
INTERVAL '1 1:00:00' DAY TO SECOND
INTERVAL '25' HOUR
INTERVAL '25:00' HOUR TO MINUTE
INTERVAL '25:00:00' HOUR TO SECOND
INTERVAL '1500' MINUTE
INTERVAL '1500:00' MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL '90000' SECOND

all of which are equivalent to the postgres interval

INTERVAL '1 day 1 hour'

but all of them have (in ANSI SQL) disitinct data types.

At this point you may decide that ANSI intervals are (to put it
politely) somewhat overcomplex... :-)

-roy

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