Re: Integer input functions for date and timestamp

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> date(year int, month int, day int) returns date
> datetime(year int, month int, day int, hour int, minute int, second
> int) returns timestamp
>
> 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.
>
> Is there any interest in adding this to core, or failing that,
> contrib?  If so I'd be happy to provide a patch including the
> functions themselves and some attendant documentation.

I think that would be useful.

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