Re: Inputting relative datetimes

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 27 August 2011 12:29, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> ... if nothing else it has been a
>> fun exercise figuring out how the datetime string parsing code works.
>
> While looking through the current code, I spotted the following oddity:
>
> select timestamp 'yesterday 10:30';
>      timestamp
> ---------------------
>  2011-08-26 10:30:00
>
> which is what you'd expect, however:
>
> select timestamp '10:30 yesterday';
>      timestamp
> ---------------------
>  2011-08-26 00:00:00
>
> Similarly "today" and "tomorrow" reset any time fields so far, but
> ISTM that they should really be preserving the hour, min, sec fields
> decoded so far.

Sounds right to me. Want to send a patch?

BTW, this is exactly the sort of thing that makes me a bit skeptical
about further extending this...

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