Re: to_char issue? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: to_char issue?
Date
Msg-id 201002230144.o1N1i5A07629@momjian.us
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In response to to_char issue?  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: to_char issue?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> This was posted as a documentation comment:
>
> to_char(interval '0d 0h 12m 44s', 'DD HH MI SS');
> with HH and HH12 will return 12 instead of 0.
>
> Testing on 8.4.1, it does seem to be the case that you get "00 12 12
> 44". Seems bogus to me, but am I and the OP missing something?

Fixed with the attached patch.  I think HH and HH24 should be the same
for intervals.  It is hard to explain why zero hours should show as
'12' for intervals.

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Index: src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c,v
retrieving revision 1.163
diff -c -c -r1.163 formatting.c
*** src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c    16 Feb 2010 21:18:01 -0000    1.163
--- src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c    23 Feb 2010 01:39:21 -0000
***************
*** 2089,2096 ****
              case DCH_HH:
              case DCH_HH12:
                  sprintf(s, "%0*d", S_FM(n->suffix) ? 0 : 2,
!                         tm->tm_hour % (HOURS_PER_DAY / 2) == 0 ? 12 :
!                         tm->tm_hour % (HOURS_PER_DAY / 2));
                  if (S_THth(n->suffix))
                      str_numth(s, s, S_TH_TYPE(n->suffix));
                  s += strlen(s);
--- 2089,2096 ----
              case DCH_HH:
              case DCH_HH12:
                  sprintf(s, "%0*d", S_FM(n->suffix) ? 0 : 2,
!                         !is_interval && tm->tm_hour % (HOURS_PER_DAY / 2) == 0 ?
!                         12 : tm->tm_hour % (HOURS_PER_DAY / 2));
                  if (S_THth(n->suffix))
                      str_numth(s, s, S_TH_TYPE(n->suffix));
                  s += strlen(s);

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