Re: Question about PARTIAL DATE type/s

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: r d <rd0002(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Question about PARTIAL DATE type/s
Date: 2012-10-07 14:03:08
Message-ID: 24996.1349618588@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Note: it exploits to_date() parsing '200013' as '2001-01', which is
> reasonable but haven't found documented and don't know how much
> reliable. Writing a safer "one month later" function is left as
> exercise.

Consider adding '1 month'::interval to the month start date.

(This function relies on text-munging way too much for my taste.
There's almost always a better way to do it than that.)

regards, tom lane

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