On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
regression=# select ('2006-09-15 23:59:00'::timestamp - '2006-09-01
09:30:41'::timestamp);
?column?
------------------
14 days 14:28:19
(1 row)
should be reporting '350:28:19' instead.
This is a hack that was done to minimize the changes in the regression
test expected outputs when we changed type interval from months/
seconds
to months/days/seconds. But I wonder whether it wasn't a dumb idea.
It is certainly inconsistent, as noted in the code comments.
I'm tempted to propose that we remove the justify_hours call, and tell
anyone who really wants the old results to apply justify_hours() to
the
subtraction result for themselves. Not sure what the fallout would
be,
though.
I suspect there's applications out there that are relying on that
being nicely formated for display purposes.
I agree it should be removed, but we might need a form of backwards
compatibility for a version or two...
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