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Bruce Momjian b866d2e2d7 as attache of this mail is patch (to the main tree) with to_char's
family functions. Contain:

  conversion from a datetype to formatted text:

	to_char( datetime, 	text)
	to_char( timestamp,	text)
	to_char( int4,		text)
	to_char( int8,		text)
	to_char( float4,	text)
	to_char( float8,	text)
	to_char( numeric,	text)

  vice versa:

	to_date		( text, text)
	to_datetime	( text, text)
	to_timestamp	( text, text)
	to_number	( text, text)	   (convert to numeric)


  PostgreSQL to_char is very compatible with Oracle's to_char(), but not
total exactly (now). Small differentions are in number formating. It will
fix in next to_char() version.


! If will this patch aplly to the main tree, must be delete the current
  to_char version in contrib (directory "dateformat" and note in contrib's
  README), this patch not erase it (sorry Bruce).



The patch patching files:

	doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
                     ^^^^^^^^
   Hmm, I'm not sure if my English... :( Check it anyone (volunteer)?

   Thomas, it is right? SGML is not my primary lang  and compile
   the current PG docs tree is very happy job (hard variables setting in
   docs/sgml/Makefile --> HSTYLE= /home/users/t/thomas/....  :-)

   What add any definition to global configure.in and set Makefiles in docs
   tree via ./configure?

	src/backend/utils/adt/Makefile
	src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c
	src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
	src/include/utils/formatting.h
Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>              http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
2000-01-25 23:53:56 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart fe2f878173 Fix (mis)information about NULLIF() SQL function.
Thanks to Tom Lane for pointing it out.
1999-09-29 05:20:20 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 5e84d58e70 Minor updates for release. 1999-06-14 07:36:12 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 95e3cec621 Include mention of CASE, COALESCE, and IFNULL.
Add date/time parsing procedure (perhaps should be in appendix).
Add time zone information (ditto).
Update keyword list.
1999-05-12 07:32:47 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f3fde99841 Augment info on string functions per Jose Soares' suggestions. 1999-01-19 16:11:18 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart a75f2d21a8 Clean up to ensure tag completion as required by the newest versions
of Norm's Modular Style Sheets and jade/docbook.
From Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>.
1998-12-29 02:24:47 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e9f10b22f4 Include new cidr and inet data types. 1998-10-27 06:14:41 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ee92ab91ad Add some id tags to allow cross-references from the datatype chapter. 1998-10-14 16:28:31 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart bd6b6f40de Add missing information.
Fix examples for regex operators.
1998-07-29 06:32:47 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ba3a99f193 Split function and operator User Guide info
from datatype.sgml into separate files.
Add type conversion information.
Format historical release notes.
1998-07-08 13:53:15 +00:00