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    Improve documentation around historical calendar rules. · 92df2203
    Tom Lane authored
    Get rid of section 8.5.6 (Date/Time Internals), which appears to confuse
    people more than it helps, and anyway discussion of Postgres' internal
    datetime calculation methods seems pretty out of place here.  Instead,
    make datatype.sgml just say that we follow the Gregorian calendar (a bit
    of specification not previously present anywhere in that chapter :-()
    and link to the History of Units appendix for more info.  Do some mild
    editorialization on that appendix, too, to make it clearer that we are
    following proleptic Gregorian calendar rules rather than anything more
    historically accurate.
    
    Per a question from Florence Cousin and subsequent discussion in
    pgsql-docs.
    92df2203
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