Re: to_char() and negative intervals
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-16T14:43:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > > Someone on IRC just reported this to_char() failure with negative > > > intervals: > > > > I think Karel wanted to remove to_char(interval) altogether. > > Yes, the notice about it is already in 7.4 docs. Maybe we can remove > it in 7.5/8.0. Comments? I don't see how we can remove it in 8.0 unless we require an initdb. What we could do is to throw an error/warning in the code and remove it completely in 8.1. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073