On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 10:06:22PM -0300, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:
> 2015-08-14 21:32 GMT-03:00 Gavin Flower :
> ...
> > So semesters don't appear to align with normal half year boundaries.
>
> Interesting links, thanks!
>
> Which sounds better for a native English: 'half', 'halfyear'?
>
> For e
2015-08-15 0:55 GMT-03:00 Tom Lane :
> I don't think we should accept a patch along this line, because it assigns
> a very specific meaning to "semester" that does not square all that well
> with real-world usage.
I agree that "semester" was not nice, the real meaning is "half" or
"halfyear" as me
"David G. Johnston" writes:
> On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:
>> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year.
> I quite dislike semester because of its connotations in education and the
> fact that actual semesters do not align with calendar halves.
It'
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:40 PM, David G. Johnston
wrote:
> Tbh, "quarter in (1,2)" does not seem that problematic...
Yeah. It's so easy to compute the half from the quarter (or even from
the month) that I can't see adding this.
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Dickson S. Guedes
wrote:
> 2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston :
> > On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year.
> >> Actually it could be evaluated from a date
2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston :
> On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes 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 sinc
On 15/08/15 13:06, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:
2015-08-14 21:32 GMT-03:00 Gavin Flower :
...
So semesters don't appear to align with normal half year boundaries.
Interesting links, thanks!
Which sounds better for a native English: 'half', 'halfyear'?
For example:
SELECT date_trunc('halfyear',
2015-08-14 21:32 GMT-03:00 Gavin Flower :
...
> So semesters don't appear to align with normal half year boundaries.
Interesting links, thanks!
Which sounds better for a native English: 'half', 'halfyear'?
For example:
> SELECT date_trunc('halfyear', current_date);
date_trunc
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On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes 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
On 15/08/15 11:58, Dickson S. Guedes wrote:
Hello hackers,
* Description
This patch is a proposal to allow the use of word 'semester' to
extract it from date in functions like EXTRACT, DATE_PART, etc and
adds the letter 'S' to format the date output in to_char.
** Example
SELECT EXTRACT(semes
Hello hackers,
* Description
This patch is a proposal to allow the use of word 'semester' to
extract it from date in functions like EXTRACT, DATE_PART, etc and
adds the letter 'S' to format the date output in to_char.
** Example
SELECT EXTRACT(semester FROM DATE '2015-07-07');
date_part
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