Re: ISO 8601 'Time Intervals' of the 'format with time-unit

Tom Lane writes:

> "Ron Mayer" <ron(at)intervideo(dot)com> writes:
> > Would it be useful if I added a 'datestyle' of 'ISO basic' which
> > would produce the most terse formats ('19980115' for dates,
> > and 'P1Y1M' for intervals)?
>
> I don't really care for using that name for it --- for one thing, you
> couldn't do
> set datestyle to iso basic;
> because of syntax limitations. A one-word name is a much better idea.

iso8601

Keep in mind that SQL itself is also a kind of ISO, so being more specific
is useful.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net