Docs: improve descriptions of ISO week-numbering date features.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (16:42 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:42:54 +0000 (16:42 -0500)
commitef207083c59edbbf11e1fcaf8d87b7c48cf1c2c1
tree517a1d59a23ebdddace1d99f067c06bbcbe046e5
parent1773e07025e72b36fa5a1deeab55cd80f5383bcf
Docs: improve descriptions of ISO week-numbering date features.

Use the phraseology "ISO 8601 week-numbering year" in place of just
"ISO year", and make related adjustments to other terminology.

The point of this change is that it seems some people see "ISO year"
and think "standard year", whereupon they're surprised when constructs
like to_char(..., "IYYY-MM-DD") produce nonsensical results.  Perhaps
hanging a few more adjectives on it will discourage them from jumping
to false conclusions.  I put in an explicit warning against that
specific usage, too, though the main point is to discourage people
who haven't read this far down the page.

In passing fix some nearby markup and terminology inconsistencies.
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml