On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 10:14:40 -0300,
Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on how this could affect date manipulation?
This is consistant with what I explained about the behavior when adding
a month results in a day in a month past the end of the new month.
What do you expect to have happen here?
> mydb=> select '29/2/2004'::date + ((2005 - date_part('year', now())::int) ||
> 'years')::interval;
> ?column?
> ---------------------
> 2005-02-28 00:00:00
>
> AFAIKS with other dates this works OK. :-)
The real issue with intervals is that how they work in unusual cases is
not documented. The behavior could change in a future version without
much fanfare.
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