On 01/05/21 16:14, Joel Jacobson wrote: > or maybe even WITH like this: > > WITH > year % 19 AS g , > year / 100 AS c, > (c - c/4 - (8*c + 13)/25 + 19*g + 15) % 30 AS h, > h - (h/28)*(1 - (h/28)*(29/(h + 1))*((21 - g)/11)) AS i, > year + year/4 + i + 2 - c + c/4) % 7 AS j, > i - j AS p, > 3 + (p + 26)/30 AS easter_month, > 1 + (p + 27 + (p + 6)/40) % 31 AS easter_day > SELECT make_date(year, easter_month, easter_day)
The standard indeed has such a syntax ... not for entirely arbitrary variables like that (at least not that I've seen) but definitely for lexically-scoped settings of things like XMLOPTION or XMLBINARY. Regards, -Chap