aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml4
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/func.sgml21
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 9b343233030..a80674bf627 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.28 2000/04/13 21:44:25 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v 1.29 2000/04/14 15:08:56 thomas Exp $
-->
<chapter id="datatype">
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
<literal>Unit</literal> is <literal>second</literal>,
<literal>minute</literal>, <literal>hour</literal>, <literal>day</literal>,
<literal>week</literal>, <literal>month</literal>, <literal>year</literal>,
- <literal>decade</literal>, <literal>century</literal>, <literal>millenium</literal>,
+ <literal>decade</literal>, <literal>century</literal>, <literal>millennium</literal>,
or abbreviations or plurals of these units;
<literal>Direction</literal> can be <literal>ago</literal> or
empty.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 67b8adaafb1..8110c6325c5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -551,13 +551,19 @@
For the
<function>date_part</function> and <function>date_trunc</function>
functions, arguments can be
- `year', `month', `day', `hour', `minute', and `second',
+ `<literal>year</literal>', `<literal>month</literal>',
+ `<literal>day</literal>', `<literal>hour</literal>',
+ `<literal>minute</literal>', and `<literal>second</literal>',
as well as the more specialized quantities
- `decade', `century', `millenium', `millisecond', and `microsecond'.
- <function>date_part</function> allows `dow'
- to return day of week and `epoch' to return seconds since 1970
- (for <type>timestamp</type>)
- or 'epoch' to return total elapsed seconds (for <type>interval</type>).
+ `<literal>decade</literal>', `<literal>century</literal>',
+ `<literal>millennium</literal>', `<literal>millisecond</literal>',
+ and `<literal>microsecond</literal>'.
+ <function>date_part</function> allows `<literal>dow</literal>'
+ to return day of week, '<literal>week</literal>' to return the
+ ISO-defined week of year, and `<literal>epoch</literal>' to return
+ seconds since 1970 (for <type>timestamp</type>)
+ or '<literal>epoch</literal>' to return total elapsed seconds
+ (for <type>interval</type>).
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -814,7 +820,8 @@
<para>
All templates allow the use of prefix and suffix modifiers. Modifiers are
- always valid for use in templates. The prefix 'FX' is a global modifier only.
+ always valid for use in templates. The prefix
+ '<literal>FX</literal>' is a global modifier only.
</para>
<para>