Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug?
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Msg-id 20210403022126.GG29126@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug?  (Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>)
Responses Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug?  (Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>)
Re: Have I found an interval arithmetic bug?  (Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Apr  2, 2021 at 07:06:08PM -0700, Zhihong Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> The mix of interval and comparison with float is not easy to interpret. See the
> following (I got 0.0833 since the result for interval '0.3 years' + interval
> '0.4 years' - ... query was 1 month and 1/12 ~= 0.0833).
> 
> yugabyte=# select 0.3 * '1 year'::interval + 0.4 * '1 year'::interval - 0.7 *
> '1 year'::interval = '0.0833 year'::interval;
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  f
> 
> As long as Bruce's patch makes improvements over the current behavior, I think
> that's fine.

I wish I could figure out how to improve it any futher.  What is odd is
that I have never seen this reported as a problem before.  I plan to
apply this early next week for PG 14.

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