Re: Time as keyword

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: Dwayne Miller <dwayne-miller(at)home(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time as keyword
Date: 2002-01-09 16:24:40
Message-ID: 3C3C6EC8.72C654EA@fourpalms.org
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> Imho it would be nice if we could allow "select timestamp(xxx);",
> and this has been the umpteenth request in this regard, and 7.2 is not even
> released yet.

afaicr one of the very sticky areas is the SQL99-specified syntax for
date/time literals:

timestamp(6) '2001-01-08 04:05:06'

which is difficult to reconcile with a function named timestamp:

timstamp(something)

- Thomas

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