| From: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Timestamp/Interval proposals: Part 2 |
| Date: | 2002-06-11 16:45:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20020611184531.A22388@zf.jcu.cz |
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:36:39AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Karel,
>
> > The to_interval() will have another (you wanted) behaviour.
>
> Please, please, please do not use to_interval for text formatting of
> intervals. It's very inconsistent with the naming of other conversion
> functions, and will confuse the heck out of a lot of users. As well as
> messing up my databases, which have to_interval as a replacement for the
> problematically named "interval" function.
Yes, agree. It wasn't well-advised.
It will probably to_char() with special 'interval' behaviour or
format marks. But I still don't know how behaviour is right.
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