On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:41:18AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This patch allows you to use IYYYY as format specifier to get the
> > ISO year, the year correspondeing to the ISO week number (IW).
>
> The purpose of to_char() as I understand it is to be 100% Oracle
> compatible, not to invent new features at random. Is this duplicating
> some Oracle functionality that was left out?
Oracle has IYYYY too. So thanks to Kurt, because now we approximate to
100% compatibity :-)
BTW, I'm open for to_char() PostgreSQL extensions if it will good
described in docs and marked as PostgreSQL extension.
Karel
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