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Dmitry Katsubo commented on HHH-2434:
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I would be happy to see days_between() function in HQL (for example, HSQL does not support
"DATETIME - DATETIME >= NUMBER" syntax).
No standard way to calculate date intervals in HQL
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Key: HHH-2434
URL:
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2434
Project: Hibernate Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core
Affects Versions: 3.2.0.ga
Environment: All
Reporter: Don Smith
Priority: Minor
Attachments: HHH-2434.patch, hsqldb-stack.txt, IntervalTracker.java,
postgresql-stack.txt
Date interval calculation is supported differently on different database platforms. Some
allow direct arithmetic on columns, i.e. enddate - startdate. Some require functions,
datediff(), timestampdiff(), etc. This causes cross-platform issues. For instance, an
application I work on has to figure out the dialect that's in use (out of the four we
currently support) and create the HQL string differently for each platform. This is
undesirable, since we use Hibernate to enable platform neutrality; our installer asks
which database the customer wants to deploy to, and sets the dialect. We'd like our
codebase to be free of dialect-specific code.
I propose a standard solution for this, either direct date arithmetic, or a function
defintion that is ported across dialects. Timestampdiff seems to be a fairly standard
function, although DB2 has different syntax than MySQL and Derby. I've seen hints that
timestampdiff is part of the ANSI SQL standard, but do not have access to the documents to
determine if that is the case.
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