Re: interval * numeric operator - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: interval * numeric operator
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Msg-id 200711081522.10681.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: interval * numeric operator  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2007 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> Shouldn't the cast be implicit anyways? What does having double precision
> operators buy us? Wouldn't it introduce ambiguities?

Unless you use --enable-integer-datetimes, interval is stored as float 
internally, so historically, the selection of offered operators is correct.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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