Re: proposal: simple date constructor from numeric values

2013/7/3 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> Peter Eisentraut escribió:
>> On 7/1/13 3:47 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION construct_time(hour int DEFAULT 0, mi int
>> > DEFAULT 0, sec int DEFAULT 0, ms float DEFAULT 0.0);
>>
>> If we are using integer datetime storage, we shouldn't use floats to
>> construct them.
>
> I think this is wrong. Datetime storage may be int, but since they're
> microseconds underneath, we'd be unable to specify a full-resolution
> timestamp if we didn't have float ms or integer µs. So either the
> seconds argument should allow fractions (probably not a good idea), or
> we should have another integer argument for microseconds (not
> milliseconds as the above signature implies).

so make_time(hour int, mi int, sec int, usec int DEFAULT 0)

Is good for all ?

Regards

Pavel

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