On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes <lis...@guedesoft.net> wrote:
> > The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year. > Actually it could be evaluated from a date using some math with > 'quarter' but could not be extracted from date since the API to define > a "reserved word" for EXTRACT is in the core, rather than in SQL. > > If this is wanted a more consistent word would be "half" since we already accept quarter. I quite dislike semester because of its connotations in education and the fact that actual semesters do not align with calendar halves. Tbh, "quarter in (1,2)" does not seem that problematic... David J.
