Hannu Krosing wrote:
> ?hel kenal p?eval, K, 2006-03-01 kell 15:18, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
> > Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > > > justify_days doesn't currently do anything with this result --- it
> > > > thinks its charter is only to reduce day components that are >= 30 days.
> > > > However, I think a good case could be made that it should normalize
> > > > negative days too; that is, the invariant on its result should be
> > > > 0 <= days < 30, not merely days < 30.
> > >
> > > What about cases like interval '1 month -99 days', should that turn into
> > > interval '-3 mons +21 days' or '-2 mons -9 days'?
> >
> > I think it should be the later. It is best to have a single sign, and I
> > think it is possible in all cases:
> >
> > '2 mons -1 days'
> >
> > could be adjusted to '1 mons 29 days'.
>
> But unfortunately '2 mons -1 days' <> '1 mons 29 days'
>
> If I want something to happen 1 day less than two months from dome date,
> then the only way to say that consistently *is* '2 mons -1 days'.
Right, but you asked to justify the days by calling the function.
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