| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: to_char() and negative intervals |
| Date: | 2004-08-16 14:43:10 |
| Message-ID: | 200408161443.i7GEhAS05897@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > Someone on IRC just reported this to_char() failure with negative
> > > intervals:
> >
> > I think Karel wanted to remove to_char(interval) altogether.
>
> Yes, the notice about it is already in 7.4 docs. Maybe we can remove
> it in 7.5/8.0. Comments?
I don't see how we can remove it in 8.0 unless we require an initdb.
What we could do is to throw an error/warning in the code and remove it
completely in 8.1.
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