date conversion (was Re: [HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...)

2001-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thomas, what do you think of the persistent reports of date conversion >> problems at DST boundaries, eg, Ayal Leibowitz's report today in >> pgsql-bugs? I cannot reproduce any such problem --- and my local >> timezone database claims that MET DST tr

[HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> Hehe, match the docs? The docs used to be perfectly accurate until you > changed them. ;) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> Thomas, what do you think of the persistent reports of date conversion > problems at DST boundaries, eg, Ayal Leibowitz's report today in > pgsql-bugs? I cannot reproduce any such problem --- and my local > timezone database claims that MET DST transitions are the last week of > March, never th

Re: [HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to > by the parser, and it seems to be a

[HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Lockhart writes: > > > Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT > > > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We > > > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to > > > by the parser, and it seems to be a rea

[HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> > Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT > > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We > > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to > > by the parser, and it seems to be a reasonable to the standard. > But wh

Re: [HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Lockhart writes: > Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to > by the parser, and it seems to be a reasonable to the s

[HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to > by the parser, and it seems to be a reasonable to the standard. ... reasonable

[HACKERS] Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

2001-04-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> Does anyone have any outstanding fixes for v7.1.x that they want to see in > *before* we do this release? Any points unresolved that anyone knows > about that we need to look at? Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92