| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Todd A(dot) Cook" <tcook(at)blackducksoftware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4377: casting result of timeofday() to timestamp fails in some timezones |
| Date: | 2008-09-06 00:42:44 |
| Message-ID: | 200809060042.m860gi323329@momjian.us |
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Todd A. Cook wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > In the meantime, why aren't you just using clock_timestamp()?
> > timeofday() is deprecated.
>
> I am using clock_timestamp() now. The use of timeofday() was from the era
> when 8.0 was hot stuff.
>
> BTW, the word "deprecated" does not appear on the docs page where timeofday()
> is listed (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-datetime.html)
> and there doesn't seem to be anything in the context of the 3 occurrences of
> "timeofday" that would imply it is deprecated.
Uh, we will probably never remove timeofday() but the new functions are
clearer.
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