Re: ISO 8601 "Time Intervals" of the "format with time-unit deignators"

Ron Mayer <ron@intervideo.com>

From: "Ron Mayer" <ron@intervideo.com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-12-01T20:50:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Is this ready for application?  It looks good to me.  However, there is
> an "Open issues" section.

In my mind there were two categories of open issues
  a) ones that are 100% backward (such as the comment about 
     outputting this format)
and
  b) ones that aren't (such as deprecating the current
     postgresql shorthand of 
         '1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 minute
     in favor of the ISO-8601
         'P1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 month.

Attached is a patch that addressed all the discussed issues that
did not break backward compatability, including the ability to
output ISO-8601 compliant intervals by setting datestyle to
iso8601basic.

   Ron