| Type: | enum |
| Default: | postgres |
| Context: | user |
| Restart: | false |
| Values: | [postgres, postgres_verbose, sql_standard, iso_8601] |
Sets the display format for interval values. The value sql_standard will produce output matching SQL standard interval literals. The value postgres (which is the default) will produce output matching PostgreSQL releases prior to 8.4 when the DateStyle parameter was set to ISO. The value postgres_verbose will produce output matching PostgreSQL releases prior to 8.4 when the DateStyle parameter was set to non-ISO output. The value iso_8601 will produce output matching the time interval format with designators defined in section 4.4.3.2 of ISO 8601.
The IntervalStyle parameter also affects the interpretation of ambiguous interval input. See datatype-interval-input for more information.
Recommendations
This is just in case your applications are expecting something specific in how INTERVAL strings are output.