Re: [DOCS] Add example about date ISO format

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, juha(dot)mustonen(at)iki(dot)fi
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Add example about date ISO format
Date: 2023-11-22 09:14:40
Message-ID: 39ac320937098e42241b947ec1165ae2003bc478.camel@cybertec.at
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On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 23:33 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:01:54PM +0000, juha(dot)mustonen(at)iki(dot)fi wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-formatting.html
> > Description:
> >
> > The documentation should include an example how to format datetime entry
> > into most commonly known ISO format. This is a bit tricky as literal
> > character needs to included with quotes:
> >
> > to_char(NOW(), &#39;YYYY-MM-DD&quot;T&quot;HH24:MI:SSZ&#39;)
>
> I know this is a six-year-old idea, but it is still a good one. I have
> developed the attached patch I would like to apply to master.

+1 on the idea, but from the context it looks like you added that example
at the regular expression matching functions.

I think the example had best be at "8.5.2. Date/Time Output", in
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml around line 2552.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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