Re: Bug in date arithmetic

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:05:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:18:46PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Just out of curiosity, what were you *expecting* this to do?
>
> > The gentleman in IRC was the one who was using the construct.
>
> Well, what did he think it would do? If it's a date it's invalid,
> and if it's not a date I'm not sure what he expected...

I apologize for being obtuse.

He expected '-' to subtract seconds, just as '+' added them.

Cheers,
David.
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