Re: BUG #18470: Time literal accepted in Postgres 15 and below, not accepted in Postgres 16

On 2024-May-17, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> I've read carefully this documentation:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html
>
> It states that:
>
> ISO 8601 specifies the use of uppercase letter T to separate the date and
> time. PostgreSQL accepts that format on input, but on output it uses a space
> rather than T, as shown above. This is for readability and for consistency
> with RFC 3339 as well as some other database systems

Hmm, at least the Wikipedia page claims that the leading T should be
accepted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Times

> postgres=# select 'T14:00:00'::time;
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type time: "T14:00:00"

This changed with commit 5b3c5953553b, "Tighten error checks in datetime
input, and remove bogus "ISO" format."

https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=5b3c5953553bb9fb0b171abc6041e7c7e9ca5b4d

There's no test case modified in this commit that specified only a time
with no date, so assume this particular change was unintentional.

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