Re: Decade indication - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Decade indication
Date
Msg-id 20200117225201.GC14054@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Decade indication  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Decade indication  (Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jan  2, 2020 at 08:52:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:01 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I see Randall Munroe has weighed in on this topic:
> >> https://xkcd.com/2249/
> 
> > And the conclusion is ... the whole discussion is stupid?
> 
> Well, it's not terribly useful anyway.  Arguments founded on an
> assumption that there's anything rational or consistent about
> human calendars tend to run into problems with that assumption.

I assume there is enough agreement that decades start on 20X0 that we
don't need to document that Postgres does that.

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