Thread: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Back out patch added during 8.2.X development: Allow to_char()

momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Back out patch added during 8.2.X development:
>     Allow to_char() "D" format specifiers for interval/time.
> It doesn't work, and I doubt it is useful enough to fix ("D" = day of
> week).

Hm, shouldn't there be a documentation update to go with that?  Or was
it never documented anyway :-(
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > Back out patch added during 8.2.X development:
> >     Allow to_char() "D" format specifiers for interval/time.
> > It doesn't work, and I doubt it is useful enough to fix ("D" = day of
> > week).
> 
> Hm, shouldn't there be a documentation update to go with that?  Or was
> it never documented anyway :-(

Not documented.  Using "D" for an interval/time is more of a corner case
/ "don't do that".  ;-)

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