Re: to_char() and negative intervals

Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Someone on IRC just reported this to_char() failure with negative
> > > intervals:
> > 
> > I think Karel wanted to remove to_char(interval) altogether.
> 
>  Yes, the notice about it is already in 7.4 docs. Maybe we can remove
>  it in 7.5/8.0. Comments?

I don't see how we can remove it in 8.0 unless we require an initdb. 
What we could do is to throw an error/warning in the code and remove it
completely in 8.1.

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