| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Dickson S(dot) Guedes" <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pg-dev <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] allow 'semester' in functions EXTRACT, DATE_PART, TO_CHAR and so on. |
| Date: | 2015-08-15 02:26:39 |
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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Dickson S. Guedes <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net>
wrote:
> 2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> > On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year.
> >> Actually it could be evaluated from a date using some math with
> >> 'quarter' but could not be extracted from date since the API to define
> >> a "reserved word" for EXTRACT is in the core, rather than in SQL.
> >>
> >
> > If this is wanted a more consistent word would be "half" since we already
> > accept quarter.
>
> In your opinion: "half" or "halfyear" ?
>
>
We don't say "quarteryear" so there would need to be a compelling argument
for "halfyear" over simply "half"
David J.
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