[GENERAL] date_part bug?

[Tim Williams]

Greetings,

When I run the following set of statements in postgres v6.4 (built on
Debian Linux):

create table tmp (v1 date, v2 datetime);
insert into tmp values ('06-01-1999', '06-01-1999');
select date_part('month', v1) as m1, date_part('month', v2) as m2 from
tmp;

I see the following results:

m1|m2
--+--
 5| 6
(1 row)

Why is date_part giving different results for date and date_time?  Why
is it wrong for 'date'? Anybody seen this before?

Thanks much in advance,
- Tim