"PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> This is nonsense: the representation returned by a SELECT for a data type should be *VALID*, shouldn't it?
CURRENT_TIME delivers a timetz value, which is not the same datatype as
time.
Having said that, 7.4 will accept this input string for a time column;
it was suggested that since timestamp-without-time-zone allows and
ignores a time zone field, time-without-time-zone should too.
regards, tom lane