| From: | Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ISO year. |
| Date: | 2003-12-18 17:27:13 |
| Message-ID: | 20031218172713.GA14573@ping.be |
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:41:18AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be> writes:
> > This patch allows you to use IYYYY as format specifier to get the
> > ISO year, the year correspondeing to the ISO week number (IW).
>
> The purpose of to_char() as I understand it is to be 100% Oracle
> compatible, not to invent new features at random. Is this duplicating
> some Oracle functionality that was left out?
I have no idea if this in Oracle or not. But it's something I
needed, and other people in the past asked about it too.
You could use the normal year instead of the iso year, but around
newyear this always gives problems.
Kurt
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