Re: [BUGS] Postgres storing time in strange manner

Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 03:57, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
>> I don't have a clue why it's doing this - has anyone else seen this sort
>> of behavior, or know why it might be doing it? It shows times wrong, for
>> instance, it shows 00:04:60 where it should show 00:05:00. See below:

> In a subsequent post, Tom Lane said that 7.2.2 fixed the problem,
> but a reply post from the original poster says that he is, in fact,
> using 7.2.2...

Further investigation showed that he'd built Postgres with -ffast-math
gcc option, which is well known to break the datetime rounding code :-(

regards, tom lane