Re: [GENERAL] difference between implicit/explicit cast of integer to interval

2012-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
raf writes: > Q1) if an integer cannot be explicitly cast into an interval, what is > happening > when a date difference is stored in an interval variable to allow it to > happen? plpgsql is really lax about type coercions. It typically does them by converting the source value to text and then

[GENERAL] difference between implicit/explicit cast of integer to interval

2012-07-01 Thread raf
hi, postgresql-9.1.3 the difference between two dates is an integral number of days as demonstrated by: select select date '2012-08-03' - date '2012-08-01'; ?column? -- 2 i just noticed that i had some (buggy) code that stored the differe