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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: juha.mustonen@iki.fi
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Add example about date ISO format
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:26:28 -0500
Message-ID: <ZV5V5IDXCI002a6w@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202311221726.xyy54yv2rp52@alvherre.pgsql>
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 06:26:45PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Nov-22, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> 
> > I think the example had best be at "8.5.2. Date/Time Output", in
> > doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml around line 2552.
> 
> Actually, isn't that a strange location?  Chapter 8.5.2 is about the
> datatype itself, and there's already a cross-link to Section 9.8 for
> to_char() stuff.  Since this is to_char() that the example wants to add,
> I think the to_char reference is a more appropriate place -- probably
> table "9.31 to_char Examples".

I originally thought it belonged in section 9.8 too, but I think the
value of this example is ISO 8601 and I don't see how we can cleanly
mention that in table 9.31.

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