BUG #2046: defective date_trunc

Started by Chrisover 20 years ago3 messagesbugs
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#1Chris
termi@wp.pl

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2046
Logged by: Chris
Email address: termi@wp.pl
PostgreSQL version: 8.0
Operating system: Windows
Description: defective date_trunc
Details:

Postgresql 8.0

select date_trunc('week',TO_DATE('2005-01-01','yyyy-mm-dd'))

result

"2006-01-02 00:00:00+01"

#2Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Chris (#1)
Re: BUG #2046: defective date_trunc

Chris wrote:

Postgresql 8.0

select date_trunc('week',TO_DATE('2005-01-01','yyyy-mm-dd'))

Upgrade to 8.0.4. This bug is fixed there.

alvherre=# select date_trunc('week',TO_DATE('2005-01-01','yyyy-mm-dd'));
date_trunc
------------------------
2004-12-27 00:00:00-03
(1 fila)

alvherre=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050806 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-4)
(1 fila)

alvherre=#

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#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Chris (#1)
Re: BUG #2046: defective date_trunc

Chris wrote:

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2046
Logged by: Chris
Email address: termi@wp.pl
PostgreSQL version: 8.0
Operating system: Windows
Description: defective date_trunc
Details:

Postgresql 8.0

select date_trunc('week',TO_DATE('2005-01-01','yyyy-mm-dd'))

result

"2006-01-02 00:00:00+01"

Are you on 8.0.4? If not, you need to upgrade because we fixed this.

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