Re: A proposal for Interval Math

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 21:36, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Ah, you ask, but what about '7 months' / '3 days'?  This requires the addtion
> of "Interval Rounding" to the Postgresql system.

As I understand the standard, this is an illegal operation, because the
two intervals are of incompatible types and a meaningful result is not
possible.  I do not think anyone should try to implement it.

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