From 9e9724e8bd5ffe8e32401bc15e8acfdef99bf9ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:25:23 +0000
Subject: Fix wrong week returnded by date_trunc('week') for early dates in
 January --- would return wrong year for 2005-01-01 and 2006-01-01.

per report from Robert Creager.

Backpatch to 8.0.X.
---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/src/sgml')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 4fee01c6d8c..f879664a9ee 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.243 2005/03/30 04:52:49 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.244 2005/04/01 14:25:22 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -5472,6 +5472,12 @@ SELECT EXTRACT(SECOND FROM TIME '17:12:28.5');
         week starts on Monday.)  In other words, the first Thursday of
         a year is in week 1 of that year. (for <type>timestamp</type> values only)
        </para>
+       <para>
+        Because of this, it is possible for early January dates to be part of the 
+        52nd or 53rd week of the previous year.  For example, <literal>2005-01-01</>
+        is part of the 53rd week of year 2004, and <literal>2006-01-01</> is part of 
+        the 52nd week of year 2005.
+       </para>
 
 <screen>
 SELECT EXTRACT(WEEK FROM TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40');
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