O kyrios Ilir Gashi egrapse stis Jul 2, 2004 :
SELECT '01.01.2004 10:00:00'::timestamp + ('01.01.2004
10:01:00'::timestamp - '01.01.2004 10:00:00'::timestamp)::interval;
?column?
---------------------
2004-01-01 10:01:00
(1 row)
works fine in my 7.4.2
> Hi,
>
> I saw this behaviour in PostgreSQL 7.2. (Once again, I know this is an old
> release but I do not have a newer version installed, and I am only using
> the server for research purposes). If you execute the following statement
>
> SELECT (CAST('01.01.2004 10:01:00' AS TIMESTAMP) - CAST('01.01.2004
> 10:00:00' AS TIMESTAMP)) + CAST('01.01.2004 10:00:00' AS TIMESTAMP);
>
> The result returned is:
>
> ?column?
> ---------------------
> 2004-01-01 00:01:00
> (1 row)
>
> I was expecting: 2004-01-01 10:01:00.
>
> Tried it on Oracle 8.0.5:
>
> SELECT TO_DATE('01.01.2004 10:01:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:MI:SS') -
> TO_DATE('01.01.2004 10:00:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:MI:SS') + TO_DATE('01.01.2004
> 10:00:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:MI:SS') FROM DUAL;
>
> ---------------------------
> 2004-01-01 10:01:00
> (1 row selected)
>
>
> And MSSQL 7:
>
> SELECT (CAST('01.01.2004 10:01:00' AS DATETIME) - CAST('01.01.2004
> 10:00:00' AS DATETIME) + CAST('01.01.2004 10:00:00' AS DATETIME));
>
>
> ---------------------------
>
> 2004-01-01 10:01:00.000
>
> (1 row(s) affected)
>
>
> Is this a bug? Same thing happens if I use TimestampTZ rather than
> Timestamp.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ilir
>
> ____________________________________________
>
> Ilir Gashi
> PhD Student
> Centre for Software Reliability
> City University
> Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB
> email: i.gashi@city.ac.uk
> website: http://www.csr.city.ac.uk/csr_city/staff/gashi/
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