Commit b27cef29 authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart

Mention support for date_part('week',timestamp).

Fix spelling of "millennium".
 Thanks to Mika Nystrom <mika@camembert.cs.caltech.edu>.
parent 7fe8f077
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<chapter id="datatype">
......@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
<literal>Unit</literal> is <literal>second</literal>,
<literal>minute</literal>, <literal>hour</literal>, <literal>day</literal>,
<literal>week</literal>, <literal>month</literal>, <literal>year</literal>,
<literal>decade</literal>, <literal>century</literal>, <literal>millenium</literal>,
<literal>decade</literal>, <literal>century</literal>, <literal>millennium</literal>,
or abbreviations or plurals of these units;
<literal>Direction</literal> can be <literal>ago</literal> or
empty.
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......@@ -551,13 +551,19 @@
For the
<function>date_part</function> and <function>date_trunc</function>
functions, arguments can be
`year', `month', `day', `hour', `minute', and `second',
`<literal>year</literal>', `<literal>month</literal>',
`<literal>day</literal>', `<literal>hour</literal>',
`<literal>minute</literal>', and `<literal>second</literal>',
as well as the more specialized quantities
`decade', `century', `millenium', `millisecond', and `microsecond'.
<function>date_part</function> allows `dow'
to return day of week and `epoch' to return seconds since 1970
(for <type>timestamp</type>)
or 'epoch' to return total elapsed seconds (for <type>interval</type>).
`<literal>decade</literal>', `<literal>century</literal>',
`<literal>millennium</literal>', `<literal>millisecond</literal>',
and `<literal>microsecond</literal>'.
<function>date_part</function> allows `<literal>dow</literal>'
to return day of week, '<literal>week</literal>' to return the
ISO-defined week of year, and `<literal>epoch</literal>' to return
seconds since 1970 (for <type>timestamp</type>)
or '<literal>epoch</literal>' to return total elapsed seconds
(for <type>interval</type>).
</para>
</sect1>
......@@ -814,7 +820,8 @@
<para>
All templates allow the use of prefix and suffix modifiers. Modifiers are
always valid for use in templates. The prefix 'FX' is a global modifier only.
always valid for use in templates. The prefix
'<literal>FX</literal>' is a global modifier only.
</para>
<para>
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