Re: Bug #605: timestamp(timestamp('a timestamp)) no longer works

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 04:16, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > timestamp(timestamp('a timestamp)) no longer works
> > I do this reasonably often in my code by way of being paranoid
> > that I might have a date, or a time, where I for sure _really_
> > want it to be a timestamp...
> > pcnz=# select timestamp('2002-03-01'::timestamp);
> > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'"
>
> You *can* coerce timestamps to be timestamps, but in 7.2 non-standard
> syntax no longer works to do this. The reason is that "timestamp(p)" now
> follows the SQL9x usage of defining a timestamp type with precision "p".
> So trying to call a function "timestamp()" no longer works as it did.
>
> You can use SQL9x syntax for the type coersion:
>
> select cast('2002-03-01'::timestamp as timestamp);
>
> or (not recommended) you can cheat and force the call to the function by
> surrounding it in double-quotes:
>
> select "timestamp"('2002-03-01'::timestamp);

Thanks Thomas,

I wasn't aware of that SQL9x timestamp precision, which was why it
seemed like a strange change to me.

Sorry to have not read the migration issues before filing this - I
thought from following these mailing lists that I knew them already :-)

Cheers,
Andrew.
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