Re: [BUGS] BUG #1993: Adding/subtracting negative time intervals

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Keep in mind that the addition of the interval_justify_hours() did
> > generate some regression test changes, so removing
> > interval_justify_hours() might just take the results back to what we had
> > in 8.0.
>
> Not hardly. I tried already. The existing timestamp_mi behavior is
> probably as close to 8.0 as we can get given the change in underlying
> representation.

You mean the '6432 hours' is a worse change, OK.

> > I guess my point is that we are changing 8.0.X behavior so we better be
> > sure it is now the way we want it to remain.
>
> [ shrug... ] We've changed datetime behavior in every past release,
> we're changing it for 8.1, we'll probably change it some more for 8.2,
> and again after that. All the datetime code is a work in progress.
> Get used to it.

OK, as long as we are sure we are not going to change it back to 8.0
behavior.

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