From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Adriaan van Os <postgres(at)microbizz(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [BUGS] BUG #2977: dow doesn't conform to ISO-8601 |
Date: | 2007-02-18 04:07:44 |
Message-ID: | 200702180407.l1I47ie05111@momjian.us |
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I have implemented 'isodow' with the attached patch.
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 11:24 schrieb Adriaan van Os:
> > Section 9.9.1 of the Postgres docs
> > <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-datetime.html>
> > mentions that the "week" subfield of the date_part function conforms to the
> > ISO-8601 standard.
>
> I see no such claim there.
>
> > You can not, in the same function, ignore ISO-8601 for one subfield and
> > follow it in another.
>
> I think we have pretty well shown that we can.
>
> > Besides, if in the same week Sunday comes before Monday, how can the result
> > of the "week" and "dow" fields conform to each other ?
>
> They don't.
>
> > If "dow" can not be changed for reasons of backward compatibility, I
> > suggest a new subfield "dayofweek" that does conform to the standard.
>
> That might be reasonable. (Or maybe "isodow".)
>
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