| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> |
| Cc: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting time from timestamp |
| Date: | 2003-03-21 06:55:16 |
| Message-ID: | 10683.1048229716@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
> And What's so holy about "" if it is a function?
The problem is that TIME(n) is a datatype name, not a function call,
according to the SQL spec. Likewise for TIMESTAMP(n), INTERVAL(n),
NUMERIC(m,n), and maybe one or two other special cases I've forgotten.
The SQL spec's love of special-purpose syntaxes is one of its worst
features IMHO ...
regards, tom lane
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