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Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 2001-04-30T15:02:08Z

> > Nothing serious, but I would like to apply a patch to allow IDENT
> > strings (e.g. 'hour') to be accepted by the SQL92 EXTRACT() function. We
> > accept those for date_part(), which is what EXTRACT() is translated to
> > by the parser, and it seems to be a reasonable to the standard.
> But why does that need to go into 7.1.1?

Does not "need to". But it is non-invasive, extremely low risk, gets the
behavior to match the docs, and gets it off my desk and into the main
tree.

                        - Thomas