| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Troels Arvin <troels(at)arvin(dot)dk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Non-standard TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE literal handling |
| Date: | 2003-08-07 15:24:54 |
| Message-ID: | 15859.1060269894@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Troels Arvin <troels(at)arvin(dot)dk> writes:
> In Jim Melton and Alan Simon's "SQL:1999 - Understanding Relational
> Language Components" (ISBN 1-55860-456-1), they write that the following
> is to be interpreted as a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE value:
> TIMESTAMP '2003-07-29 13:19:30.5+02:00'
> PostgreSQL interprets the above as a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE value of
> '2003-07-29 13:19:30.5', i.e. it simply discards the '+02:00' part and
> fails to interpret it as being of TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE type.
That's true, and I think we are unlikely to change it. Postgres
interprets this construct as a special case of a general
datatype_name 'literal string'
construction. To allow the contents of the literal to determine the
datatype specification would break the general construct completely.
regards, tom lane
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