Re: proposal: simple date constructor from numeric values

On 1 July 2013 17:47, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2013/6/29 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> long time I am thinking about simple function for creating date or
>> timestamp values based on numeric types without necessity to create
>> format string.
>>
>> What do you think about this idea?
> I found so same idea was discussed three years ago
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/14107.1276443739@sss.pgh.pa.us
>

I suggested something similar also:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/AANLkTi=W1wtcL7qR4PuQaQ=UoabmjSUSz6QGJTUCXF-P@mail.gmail.com

The thread I linked died off without reaching a consensus about what
the functions ought to be named, although Josh and Robert were
generally supportive of the idea.

The function signatures I have been using in my own C functions are:

* date(year int, month int, day int) returns date
* datetime(year int, month int, day int, hour int, minute int, second
int) returns timestamp

Cheers,
BJ