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

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: <thomas@pgsql.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-04-30T16:12:36Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
Thomas Lockhart writes:

> > > 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.

Hehe, match the docs?  The docs used to be perfectly accurate until you
changed them.

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