From: | hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Alexander Loechel" <Alexander(dot)Loechel(at)unibw(dot)de>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp |
Date: | 2010-10-17 15:23:20 |
Message-ID: | 20101017152320.GA13439@depesz.com |
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Alexander Loechel" <Alexander(dot)Loechel(at)unibw(dot)de> writes:
> > After an update on my ubuntu system of postgres 8.4.4 to 8.4.5 the
> > to_timestamp methode produces different results.
>
> > in a CREAT View statement I have following methode call:
> > to_timestamp(dbtimestamp, 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS TZ') AS "timestamp"<<
>
> > Where dbtimestamp is a String coming from a CMS.
>
> > before migration it produces normal timestamps
> > after migration I get following Message:
>
> > "ERROR: TZ/tz format patterns are not supported in to_date"
>
> Testing shows that that example fails in every Postgres release back to
> 7.1. The spelling of the error message varies a bit, but they all agree
> that a TZ format spec isn't supported.
>
> I don't know what changed in your installation, but it wasn't this.
Any reason why Pg can't parse TZ?
perhaps it should be also listed in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-formatting.html
doc, that you can't use TZ (and some other patterns too)?
Best regards,
depesz
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