Corey Huinker <corey.huin...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Note that times from 1 second to 1 hour all get the nn:nn.nnn >> treatment. I experimented with these variants for sub-minute times: >> ... >> but it seems like the first variant is not terribly intelligible and >> the second variant is inconsistent with what happens for longer times.
> Well, if we're looking to be consistent, here's what interval does now: > ... > Should we just plug into whatever code that uses? Well, that code's on the backend side so we're not going to just call it in any case. And I think we don't want to be quite so verbose as to go up to hh:mm:ss.fff as soon as we get past 1 second. However, comparing that output to what I had suggests that maybe it's better to keep a leading zero in two-digit fields, that is render times like "00:01.234", "01:23.456", or "01:23:45.678" rather than suppressing the initial zero as I had in my examples. It's an extra character but I think it reinforces the meaning. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers