From: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:22:21 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add a comment to AdjustIntervalForTypmod to reduce chance of future bugs.
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Add a comment to AdjustIntervalForTypmod to reduce chance of future bugs.

It's not entirely evident how the logic here relates to the
interval_transform function, so let's clue people in that they need to
check that if the rules change.
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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
index 12af7f69f69..db434dcb3cc 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,8 @@ AdjustIntervalForTypmod(Interval *interval, int32 typmod)
 		 * nonzero "month" field.  However that seems a bit pointless when we
 		 * can't do it consistently.  (We cannot enforce a range limit on the
 		 * highest expected field, since we do not have any equivalent of
-		 * SQL's <interval leading field precision>.)
+		 * SQL's <interval leading field precision>.)  If we ever decide to
+		 * revisit this, interval_transform will likely requite adjusting.
 		 *
 		 * Note: before PG 8.4 we interpreted a limited set of fields as
 		 * actually causing a "modulo" operation on a given value, potentially