| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: EXTRACT broken |
| Date: | 2001-10-13 19:26:00 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0110132124220.643-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I had figured that time would be cast to timestamp.
>
> How would you do that? With no date available, you're short all the
> high-order bits ...
For the purpose of extracting the fields that time does provide, namely
hour, minute, and second, it wouldn't matter. At least it gives me a much
better feeling than casting to interval, which is a completely different
kind of quantity.
Of course, a separate date_part for time and date would make the most
sense.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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