Re: Procedure for feature requests? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sam Mason
Subject Re: Procedure for feature requests?
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Msg-id 20091027170603.GO5407@samason.me.uk
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In response to Re: Procedure for feature requests?  (Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>)
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:01:00PM +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Sam Mason <sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
> > any definition of "division" I've ever been able to think of [is]
> > ill defined
>
> Yep, you would probably need some safety margin and add a
> "WHERE" clause. I should have thought about that earlier as
> I recently stumbled (again) over why "INTERVAL / INTERVAL"
> was not defined.

Not sure what you mean by a "safety margin", but I don't think it would
help much.  Hours are defined using seconds (they're *always* 3600
seconds long, but, say, a day isn't *always* 24 hours long) so I don't
see what a safety margin would do.

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/

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