Re: External Open Standards

From: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: External Open Standards
Date: 2012-05-24 03:50:23
Message-ID: CADxJZo1ckOPsxo1jqd9=-W-3Rvp5MWz2oT8e3AGtO3wE5Ez2jw@mail.gmail.com
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On 24 May 2012 05:30, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On mån, 2012-05-21 at 15:34 +1000, Brendan Jurd wrote:
>> I'd be okay with just adding a note in the manual under Date/Time
>> Output to the effect of "Note: ISO 8601 specifies the use of uppercase
>> letter 'T' to separate the date and time. Postgres uses a space for
>> improved readability, in line with other database systems and RFC
>> 3339."
>
> But that is wrong.  We use the space because SQL says so.  The reason we
> have all those other formats is for readability or consistency or some
> secondary standard.  But the format of the ISO format is exactly what
> the SQL standard says, without any other considerations.
>

Did you miss my follow-on message on this thread? You are responding
to a message that has been superceded. I saw what you wrote earlier,
and updated my suggestions for the docs 2 days ago.

Please see

http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/CADxJZo34mA54iMgd7RUADCC-R6LQ7w-TA8gqWvahKuA7BSV8vg@mail.gmail.com

Cheers,
BJ

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