4paradigm / 4paradigm/OpenMLDB

built-in-function: Support string parameter for data/time functions like `dayofyear()`, `monthofyear()`, etc

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**

OpenMLDB provides some built-in date and time functions. Most of those functions only support using a `bigint` or a `timestamp` or a `date` type parameter. For instance, then function `dayofmonth()` supports parameter types like `bigint`(`int64`), `timestamp` and `date`.
However, most of the popular DB (e.g, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle, TSQL) support using a date/time string as parameter.

In this issue, we are going to support using a date/time string as the parameter for most of the built-in date/time functions:
- year()
- month()
- day(), dayofmonth()
- dayofweek()
- weekofyear()
- hour()
- minute()
- second()

**Describe the solution you'd like**

- [ ] implement related C++ function for string parameter
- [ ] register into default library

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Research direction

The issue is about extending date/time functions in OpenMLDB to accept string parameters. Look for the built-in function implementations in C++ (likely in a directory like src/udf or src/engine). Find the existing functions like dayofmonth() and see how they handle bigint, timestamp, and date types. You'll need to add string parsing logic and register the new overloads in the default library. Check for any existing string-to-date conversion utilities. Running existing tests for these functions will help verify the changes.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, sql
Domain
backend, database
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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