Re: date_part vs extract - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Brent Verner
Subject Re: date_part vs extract
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Msg-id 20011129094839.GB11369@rcfile.org
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In response to date_part vs extract  (Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>)
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On 29 Nov 2001 at 09:45 (+0100), Markus Bertheau wrote:
| I wonder about the difference between date_part('week', ...) and
| extract(week from ...) not only but also from a performance point of
| view. I read extract is standard and date_part is not. Backwards
| compatibility maybe justifies the existence of date_part. Whats else?

The EXTRACT syntax ends up as a call to the internal date_part(...) 
function.  If SQL-portability is not a concern, calling date_part()
directly should be a bit quicker.

cheers. brent


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