Peter Eisentraut a2da77cdb4 Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric ... The previous implementation of EXTRACT mapped internally to date_part(), which returned type double precision (since it was implemented long before the numeric type existed). This can lead to imprecise output in some cases, so returning numeric would be preferrable. Changing the return type of an existing function is a bit risky, so instead we do the following: We implement a new set of functions, which are now called "extract", in parallel to the existing date_part functions. They work the same way internally but use numeric instead of float8. The EXTRACT construct is now mapped by the parser to these new extract functions. That way, dumps of views etc. from old versions (which would use date_part) continue to work unchanged, but new uses will map to the new extract functions. Additionally, the reverse compilation of EXTRACT now reproduces the original syntax, using the new mechanism introduced in 40c24bfef9. The following minor changes of behavior result from the new implementation: - The column name from an isolated EXTRACT call is now "extract" instead of "date_part". - Extract from date now rejects inappropriate field names such as HOUR. It was previously mapped internally to extract from timestamp, so it would silently accept everything appropriate for timestamp. - Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just '1'). Reported-by: Petr Fedorov <petr.fedorov@phystech.edu> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/42b73d2d-da12-ba9f-570a-420e0cce19d9@phystech.edu		2021-04-06 07:20:42 +02:00
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src	Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric	2021-04-06 07:20:42 +02:00
KNOWN_BUGS	Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines	2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
Makefile	Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build	2013-10-10 20:11:56 -04:00
MISSING_FEATURES	Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines	2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
TODO	Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http:	2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00