| From: | Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Holmgren <magnus(dot)holmgren(at)millnet(dot)se> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Capitalization of localized month and day names (to_char() with 'TMmonth', 'TMday', etc.) |
| Date: | 2021-10-06 12:17:34 |
| Message-ID: | CAC+AXB04GvuxTS7L0=P75nChcUgvy4MJu0jLxjK+JH2cpEB_HQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 11:09 AM Magnus Holmgren <magnus(dot)holmgren(at)millnet(dot)se>
wrote:
>
> There's just this tiny but seemingly obvious issue that I can't believe I
> haven't noticed until now: to_date(now(), 'TMmonth') returns 'october' in
> an
> English locale (en_US.UTF-8 at least). Names of months and weekdays are
> proper
> nouns and as such *always* capitalized in English, so that seems wrong to
> me.
>
> IMHO, the patterns of TO_CHAR() do as promised in the documentation [1]:
MONTH full upper case month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)
Month full capitalized month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)
month full lower case month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)
What you are proposing looks more like a new feature than a bug.
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-formatting.html
Regards,
Juan José Santamaría Flecha
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