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grounds that they don't fit into the specified interval qualifier (typmod). This behavior, while of long standing, is clearly wrong per spec --- for example the value INTERVAL '999' SECOND means 999 seconds and should not be reduced to less than 60 seconds. In some cases there could be grounds to raise an error if higher-order field values are not given as zero; for example '1 year 1 month'::INTERVAL MONTH should arguably be taken as an error rather than equivalent to 13 months. However our internal representation doesn't allow us to do that in a fashion that would consistently reject all and only the cases that a strict reading of the spec would suggest. Also, seeing that for example INTERVAL '13' MONTH will print out as '1 year 1 mon', we have to be careful not to create a situation where valid data will fail to dump and reload. The present patch therefore takes the attitude of not throwing an error in any such case. We might want to revisit that in future but it would take more redesign than seems prudent in late beta. Per a complaint from Sebastien Flaesch and subsequent discussion. While at other times we might have just postponed such an issue to the next development cycle, 8.4 already has changed the parsing of interval literals quite a bit in an effort to accept all spec-compliant cases correctly. This seems like a change that should be part of that rather than coming along later.
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