Hi,
while trying to create a query this afternoon dealing with intervals, I
noticed the following behaviour and I wondered, if it is intended. (It was
non-intuitive to me and if there was a warning in the docs i missed it.)
The lines marked <--- make me wonder ...
tschwarz=> select version(); version
------------------------------------------------------------------------PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i386-pc-linux-gnu, compiled
byGCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select '1'::interval;interval
----------00:00:01
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'1'::interval;?column?
------------00:00:01
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select '-1'::interval;interval
-----------01:00 <---
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'-1'::interval;?column?
----------01:00 <---
(1 row)
Now with 1.0 everything looks fine:
tschwarz=> select '1.0'::interval;interval
----------00:00:01
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'1.0'::interval;?column?
------------00:00:01
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select '-1.0'::interval;interval
------------00:00:01
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'-1.0'::interval;?column?
----------00:00:01
(1 row)
But look at 0.1:
tschwarz=> select '0.1'::interval; interval
-------------00:00:00.10
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'0.1'::interval; ?column?
---------------00:00:00.10
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select '-0.1'::interval; interval
-------------00:00:00.10 <---
(1 row)
tschwarz=> select -'-0.1'::interval; ?column?
---------------00:00:00.10 <---
(1 row)
