Re: Timestamp in PG - 7.1 & 7.2

"Anagha Joshi" <ajoshi(at)nulinkinc(dot)com> writes:
> Here is output from PostgreSQL 7.2.4:
> =20
> trapdb=3D# select cast(datetime(1057637700) as timestamp);
> timestamp
> ---------------------------
> 2003-07-07 22:45:00+05:30
> (1 row)
> =20
> I've migrated from PG - 7.1.2 to 7.2.4.

Not sure why 7.2 is misbehaving here --- it looks to me like it's adding
instead of subtracting the timezone offset, but I don't see any mention
of having fixed such a bug in the CVS logs.

I'd suggest changing your code to abstime(n) instead of datetime(n) ---
you will have to do that when you update to 7.3 anyway, and it gets the
right answer on 7.2.

regards, tom lane