| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> | 
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| To: | Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> | 
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: inverse of "day of year" | 
| Date: | 2004-03-22 15:18:10 | 
| Message-ID: | 20040322151810.GB2962@wolff.to | 
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:14:40 -0300,
  Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> wrote:
> 
> Any thoughts on how this could affect date manipulation?
This is consistant with what I explained about the behavior when adding
a month results in a day in a month past the end of the new month.
What do you expect to have happen here?
> mydb=> select '29/2/2004'::date + ((2005 - date_part('year', now())::int) || 
> 'years')::interval;
>       ?column?
> ---------------------
>  2005-02-28 00:00:00
> 
> AFAIKS with other dates this works OK. :-)
The real issue with intervals is that how they work in unusual cases is
not documented. The behavior could change in a future version without
much fanfare.
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