Argument 'week' not supported in date_trunc function with intervals

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Subject: Argument 'week' not supported in date_trunc function with intervals
Date: 2020-01-03 12:31:27
Message-ID: 157805468778.1149.10815835689820301977@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-datetime.html
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In the documentation of the date_trunc function (9.9.2), the first argument
(field) cannot be 'week' if the second argument (source) is an interval:

csauer=# SELECT DATE_TRUNC('week', INTERVAL '7 days');



ERROR: interval units "week" not supported because months usually have
fractional weeks
csauer=# SELECT DATE_TRUNC('week', INTERVAL '1 week');



ERROR: interval units "week" not supported because months usually have
fractional weeks

The documentation should state that explicitly.

I also think the error message could be improved, because in the cases above
there are no months involved and the result should be 1.

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