Folks, While debugging an error with Aziz (postgres_newbie) Sharief in the #postgresql IRC channel, I found a major POLA violation:
$ psql Welcome to psql 8.3.7, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit shac...@shackle:5432=# SELECT now() + '900000'; ?column? ------------------------------- 2009-09-03 19:03:43.195514-07 (1 row) shac...@shackle:5432=# SELECT now() - '900000'; ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "900000" HINT: Perhaps you need a different "datestyle" setting. I'd be tempted to call it a flat-out bug in the first case. Adding a string literal to a timestamptz should just result in an error, IMHO. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers