2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com>: > On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes <lis...@guedesoft.net> wrote: >> >> >> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year. >> Actually it could be evaluated from a date using some math with >> 'quarter' but could not be extracted from date since the API to define >> a "reserved word" for EXTRACT is in the core, rather than in SQL. >> > > If this is wanted a more consistent word would be "half" since we already > accept quarter.
In your opinion: "half" or "halfyear" ? > I quite dislike semester because of its connotations in education and the > fact that actual semesters do not align with calendar halves. I agree, my native language is pt_BR, and it is very common to use "semestre" ( "semester" ), but reading some text around the Internet I see "half-year" more often. Thank you. -- Dickson S. Guedes mail/xmpp: gue...@guedesoft.net - skype: guediz http://github.com/guedes - http://guedesoft.net http://www.postgresql.org.br -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
