Re: changing 'mons' in interval?

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:43:08 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:51:37PM +1000, Klint Gore wrote:
> > Is there a way to change mons in interval::text to the full word months
> > without resorting to "replace(aninterval::text,'mon','Month')"? If it
> > can handle locales as well that would be good (but I could live without
> > it).
>
> Have you considered using to_char to get the output in the exact format
> you want?

Yes. It turned out to be a fairly complex statement with case's of
extracts to handle plurals and negatives. That's what lead me to asking.

besides
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-formatting.html
"Warning: to_char(interval, text) is deprecated and should not be used
in newly-written code. It will be removed in the next version."

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-formatting.html
"Warning: to_char(interval, text) is deprecated and should not be used
in newly-written code. It will be removed in the next version."

And 8.1/8.2 seem to have been revived that warning but still has
to_char(interval,text)

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