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Re: Absolute value of intervals


  • From: Lew <noone(at)lwsc(dot)ehost-services(dot)com>
  • To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Absolute value of intervals
  • Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:37:19 -0400
  • Message-id: <hcil7v$o2q$2@news.albasani.net> <text/plain>

Jeff Davis wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 16:39 -0700, Scott Bailey wrote:
But there is some ambiguity around the length of a month. So INTERVAL '1 month - 30 days' = INTERVAL '0 days' = INTERVAL '-1 month +30 days'. But when added to a date, it makes no change for months with 30 days, adds 1 day for months with 31 days and subtracts 2 days for February.

or 1 day for February, 2012.

--
Lew



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