Re: fortnight interval support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin Flower
Subject Re: fortnight interval support
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Msg-id 5637ACE3.3070405@archidevsys.co.nz
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In response to Re: fortnight interval support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 02/11/15 07:06, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Nathan Wagner wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote:

I had actually written:
> You trying to get PostgreSQL banned in France???>> When I was learning French many years ago, I was told that the
French>consider their fortnight to be 15 days!!!
 

The following 2 lines were from Nathan, not me!
>>> What, it's a "fortnight", not a "quinzaine".
>>>
>>> You have no idea how hard it was to resist updating the patch...
>> Well, if you won't do it, I will.
> Please tell me this is a joke.
>
> (FWIW, I don't have a problem with "fortnight", but I draw the line
> at units that are not used in English.)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>




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