Re: polite request about syntax

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Jeremy Drake" <pgsql(at)jdrake(dot)com>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Ricardo Malafaia" <rmalafaia(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: polite request about syntax
Date: 2006-09-20 11:25:38
Message-ID: 2129.24.211.165.134.1158751538.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Drake wrote:
>>
>> > I have found the same thing with the type "timestamp without time
>> zone".
>> > The verbosity of type names seems rather extreme.
>>
>> Then use simply "timestamptz" (with TZ) or "timestamp" (without).
>
> Didn't know about these, learn something new every day I guess. I know
> that double did not work due to the countless times I forget the
> "precision" :)

then use float8.

for a list of all the builtin aliases see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype.html

cheers

andrew

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