Re: Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> 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 standard.

>> But why does that need to go into 7.1.1?

> Does not "need to". But it is non-invasive, extremely low risk, gets the
> behavior to match the docs, and gets it off my desk and into the main
> tree.

If the current behavior does not match the docs then it qualifies as a
bug fix ;-). I have no objections to this one.

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 the first week of April, anyway. There's something funny
going on there.

regards, tom lane