Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-04 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Alvaro Herrera >> wrote: >>> (WRT the reference to Jane Austen and "Se'ennight" for "week", it occurs >>> to me that fortnight is a similar contraction

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Alvaro Herrera > wrote: >> (WRT the reference to Jane Austen and "Se'ennight" for "week", it occurs >> to me that fortnight is a similar contraction for "forteen night".) > > Well, clearly we also need enquië fo

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-03 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > (WRT the reference to Jane Austen and "Se'ennight" for "week", it occurs > to me that fortnight is a similar contraction for "forteen night".) Well, clearly we also need enquië for the elves of Arda and tenday for for Faerûnians. Seems like

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Michael Paquier wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Gavin Flower wrote: > > You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? :-) > > > > When I was learning French many years ago, I was told that the French > > consider their fortnight to be 15 days!!! > > Confirmed. I would translate forni

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Gavin Flower wrote: > You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? :-) > > When I was learning French many years ago, I was told that the French > consider their fortnight to be 15 days!!! Confirmed. I would translate fornight as 'quinzaine' to French. (please

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-02 Thread Gavin Flower
On 02/11/15 07:06, Tom Lane wrote: David Fetter writes: On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: I had actually written: > You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? > > When I was learning French many

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 11/02/2015 09:20 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:20 PM, David Fetter wrote: On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: David Fetter writes: On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin F

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-02 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:20 PM, David Fetter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> David Fetter writes: >> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: >> >> What, it's a "fortn

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-01 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Fetter writes: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > >> What, it's a "fortnight", not a "quinzaine". > >> > >> You have no idea how h

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
David Fetter writes: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: >> What, it's a "fortnight", not a "quinzaine". >> >> You have no idea how hard it was to resist updating the patch... > Well, if you won't do it

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-11-01 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > > You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? :-) > > > > When I was learning French many years ago, I was told that the French > > consider their fortnight to be

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Nathan Wagner
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:52:11PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' would be > > cool. > > Patch attached... This isn't necessarily bad, but I observe that it would be di

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Nathan Wagner
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? :-) > > When I was learning French many years ago, I was told that the French > consider their fortnight to be 15 days!!! What, it's a "fortnight", not a "quinzaine". You have no ide

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Nathan Wagner
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:04:55PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Nathan Wagner wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > >> Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' would be > >> cool. > > > > Patch attached.

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Gavin Flower
On 28/10/15 02:52, Nathan Wagner wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' would be cool. Patch attached... :) [...] You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France??? :-) When I was learning French ma

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 01:52:11PM +, Nathan Wagner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' > > would be cool. > > Patch attached... > > :) I'd argue for a back-patch all the way to 9.1, as the

Re: [HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Nathan Wagner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' would be >> cool. > > Patch attached... > > :) This is very cool (you are 100% certain there are no performance

[HACKERS] fortnight interval support

2015-10-27 Thread Nathan Wagner
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:58:52PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > Aw, you're no fun. select '1 fortnight'::interval => '14 days' would be cool. Patch attached... :) % psql -p 5433 -d template1 -h localhost psql (9.4.5, server 9.6devel) WARNING: psql major version 9.4, server major version 9.6.