Re: possibly a bug?

Ewald,

> Is this a bug or Am i Wrong?

It's not a bug, it's a feature :-)

Your problem is that you're convertng back and forth between DATE
(which does not track hours) and TIMESTAMP + INTERVAL, which does
track hours. Therefore you arrive at this problem:

> beta=# SELECT ('2001-10-28'::date + '1 day'::interval)::date;
> ?column?
> ------------
> 2001-10-28
> (1 row)

Ah, but you're not seeing the whole story:

beta=# SELECT ('2001-10-28'::date + '1 day'::interval)::TIMESTAMP
?column?
------------
2001-10-28 23:00:00
(1 row)

Aha! And, if we look at a calendar, we see that 10.28.2001 was the end
of daylight savings time in 2001!

For your purposes, it would be better not to muddy the waters by
tinkering with the vagaries of TIMESTAMP. Thus, you should:

SELECT ('2001-10-28'::DATE + 1);
?column?
------------
2001-10-29
(1 row)

FOr more info, see my DATE/TIME FAQ on http://techdocs.postgtresql.org/

-Josh

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