Hi all,
I want to switch one of our servers to 7.3.
Some of our projects (7.2) use timespan() which for example evaluates:
SELECT timespan('5 seconds');
interval
----------
@ 5 secs
In 7.3 there's only interval
SELECT '5 seconds'::interval;
interval
----------
00:00:05
I _think_ I never used the output of timespan as a result itself, but
rather to calculate some things.
However, maybe I did (couldn't check all the projects by now).
What then ?
- Can I have the old behaviour back ?
- Is it possible to have the timespan function back, so that I dont have
to replace all occurences of timespan to interval ?
- Can I have the output of timespan in the same format as before ? (I
like the new one better, but for compatibility reasons, there could be a
case where it would be much handier with the old format)
- Why was it taken away ? Did it 'hurt' ?
- What else was taken out ?
P.S.: I just read about CREATE DOMAIN ... AS ...
Is that what I want ?
Can I tell it to have the same output as before ?
TIA
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