Re: BUG #6028: age() function output contracts "months", but not any other units. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #6028: age() function output contracts "months", but not any other units.
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Msg-id 15605.1306173724@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #6028: age() function output contracts "months", but not any other units.  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #6028: age() function output contracts "months", but not any other units.
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Does anyone feel this is worth changing?  I am concerned such a change
>> would break many user applications.

> The backward compatibility problem is pretty icky, but I don't much
> like the idea of leaving it as-is, either.

ISTM that changing interval's output formatting would create far too
many problems to be justifiable for such a purely cosmetic issue.

            regards, tom lane

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