Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Tom> Yeah. There are two relevant variants of date_trunc():
> [...]
> Tom> So we probably ought to change the docs here.
> There's also the option of adding an explicit function
> date_trunc(text,date) returns date, which is a workaround that I (and
> probably quite a few other people) have used. I think having such a
> function added to core would be less surprising than the current
> behavior.
Ah! Yes, of course, that would be better. Seems like a workable
solution for Chris, too. We still can't back-patch it, though.
regards, tom lane
