Brendan,
> date(year int, month int, day int) returns date
> datetime(year int, month int, day int, hour int, minute int, second
> int) returns timestamp
a) you'd need to rename these.
b) we'd also want the inverse of these, which would be extremely useful.
> Without these functions (or some variation), a user wishing to
> construct a date from integers can only assemble the date into a
> string and then put that string through postgres' datetime parser,
> which is totally perverse.
"Parsers Gone Wild!" ;-)
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