Roy> I have no objection to allowing things like Roy> '1 hour 10 minutes' DAY TO SECOND
Roy> but I'm just wondering whether the hybrid syntax is an Roy> unnecessary complication. And furthermore, if you really want to allow constrained postgres syntax interval literals (and I can't at the moment see how constraining a literal is useful) then why *not* use the syntax Brian suggested: INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND '1 hour 10 minutes' This keeps the non-standard postgres syntax and the SQL standard syntax nicely separate... -roy ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]