MagicStack / MagicStack/asyncpg
negative interval encoding issues due to python's timedelta implementation details
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Description
* **asyncpg version**: 0.29.0
* **PostgreSQL version**: 16.1
* **Do you use a PostgreSQL SaaS? If so, which? Can you reproduce
the issue with a local PostgreSQL install?**: this is happening on local PG
* **Python version**: 3.11.7
* **Platform**:
* **Do you use pgbouncer?**: no
* **Did you install asyncpg with pip?**: yes
* **If you built asyncpg locally, which version of Cython did you use?**:
* **Can the issue be reproduced under both asyncio and
[uvloop](https://github.com/magicstack/uvloop)?**: yes
Python's timedelta implementation only allows to store negative number of days, hours, minutes, seconds, microseconds are always positive values. So when a negative value smaller than a day is interpreted it is stored in a strange way, example from Python's documentation:
Note that normalization of negative values may be surprising at first. For example:
```
>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> d = timedelta(microseconds=-1)
>>> (d.days, d.seconds, d.microseconds)
(-1, 86399, 999999)
```
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html?highlight=timedelta#datetime.timedelta
In my particular case when I'm trying to store -3 hours, that's getting translated in python to:
```python
datetime.timedelta(days=-1, seconds=75600)
```
And ends up stored in postgresql as: "0 years 0 mons -1 days 21 hours 0 mins 0.0 secs"
Is there also a workaround where I can skip timedelta for interval?
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No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the negative three-hour timedelta case with asyncpg 0.29.0, Python 3.11.7, and PostgreSQL 16.1, then trace the interval encoding and decoding behavior. Done means the expected representation or a documented workaround is established, with regression coverage for negative sub-day intervals.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- postgresql, python
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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