Re: roundoff problem in time datatype

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Where are we on this?
> 
> We haven't decided what to do.
> 
> I think my preference is to allow '24:00:00' (but not anything larger)
> as a valid input value of the time datatypes.  This for two reasons:
>     * existing dump files may contain such values
>     * it's consistent with allowing, eg, '12:13:60', which we
>       allow even though it's certainly not a valid leap second.
> 
> The alternative is to try to catch all places where 23:59:59.something
> could get rounded up to 24:00:00, but that looks messy, and it would
> introduce a gotcha into calculations on time values.

Is this a must-fix for 8.1?

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