| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: text -> time cast problem |
| Date: | 2001-12-04 22:30:44 |
| Message-ID: | 6424.1007505044@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Nope, the docs represent the behavior of the code at the time the docs
> were written. The code is now in error with respect to the documented
> behaviour. A quick check shows that PostgreSQL 7.0.2 agrees with
> including the fractional part.
[ checks ... ] As does 7.1. You're right, that is how it used to behave.
> For details, I refer you to my Oct 5 message "Unhappiness with forced
> precision conversion for timestamp", where we already discussed
> essentially the same issue, but apparently we never did anything about it.
I think the rest of us were waiting on Lockhart to opine about it ...
not to mention do something about it ...
regards, tom lane
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