On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:04:39PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:19:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 08:42:31AM +0100, Dean Rasheed wrote: > > > So it's equal even without calling justify_interval() on the result. > > > > > > FWIW, I remain of the opinion that the interval literal code should > > > just spill down to lower units in all cases, just like the > > > multiplication and division code, so that the results are consistent > > > (barring floating point rounding errors) and explainable. > > > > Here is a more minimal patch that doesn't change the spill-down units at > > all, but merely documents it, and changes the spilldown to months to > > round instead of truncate. > > Unless I hear more feedback, I plan to apply this doc patch to all > branches with the word "rounded" changed to "truncated" in the back > branches, and apply the rounded code changes to master.
Now that I think of it, I will just remove the word "rounded" from the back branch docs so we are technically breaking the documented API less in PG 15. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
