Bruce> The reason I added it is that usually people think of the
Bruce> PG syntax as '1 hour 30 seconds'. The '1:30' is a kind of
Bruce> subtle because both PG and ANSI support that syntax and we
Bruce> need to handle that. The tricky part is that we can't say
Bruce> by looking at '1:30' whether it is PG or ANSI, and that
Bruce> will affect how we deal with the clause after it.
It could be either in ANSI:
INTERVAL '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL '1:30' HOUR TO MINUTE
Similarly, pg interprets
INTERVAL '1'
as
INTERVAL '1 second'
In ANSI, it could be any one of
INTERVAL '1' SECOND
INTERVAL '1' MINUTE
INTERVAL '1' HOUR
INTERVAL '1' DAY
INTERVAL '1' MONTH
INTERVAL '1' YEAR
In ANSI you can only parse the string by reference to the interval type.
-roy