Re: Query about time zone patterns in to_char

From: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Query about time zone patterns in to_char
Date: 2021-05-16 18:22:41
Message-ID: CAMm1aWZOKoVdSqvVxZJZ2ADjDkUEZ7fm-+DW2rGqnS-FJMXQYg@mail.gmail.com
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> Hm. If Oracle does that, then there's an argument for us doing it
> too. I can't get hugely excited about it, but maybe someone else
> cares enough to prepare a patch.

Thanks for the confirmation. Attached patch supports these format
patterns. Kindly review and let me know if any changes are required.

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin Jadhav
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:34 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Thanks for the explanation. I also feel that we may not support every
> > case-variant. But the other reason which triggered me to think in the
> > other way is, as mentioned in commit [1] where this feature was added,
> > says that these format patterns are compatible with Oracle. Whereas
> > Oracle supports both upper case and lower case patterns. I just wanted
> > to get it confirmed with this point before concluding.
>
> Hm. If Oracle does that, then there's an argument for us doing it
> too. I can't get hugely excited about it, but maybe someone else
> cares enough to prepare a patch.
>
> regards, tom lane

Attachment Content-Type Size
v1_support_of_tzh_tzm_patters.patch application/octet-stream 5.3 KB

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