Re: to_char() and negative intervals
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-08-16T22:41:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:43:10AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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. If we force an initdb for some other reason during beta, we can remove to_char(interval) at that point too ... -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Siempre hay que alimentar a los dioses, aunque la tierra esté seca" (Orual)