From: | David Harper <adh(at)sanger(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Ambiguous language in Table 8.13. Special Date/Time Inputs [EXT] |
Date: | 2019-07-10 10:13:33 |
Message-ID: | 1DC28BBD-A4B8-4083-AC83-BD5B012FF3B1@sanger.ac.uk |
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> I actually agree with your opinion that "midnight" is fine.
> That text has been that way for over fifteen years[1], and
> nobody's complained before that it was ambiguous.
Conversely, how many users over the past fifteen years have read that table, and then felt compelled (as I did) to run a query such as
select 'today'::timestamp,'yesterday'::timestamp,'tomorrow'::timestamp;
on their PostgreSQL cluster to clear the ambiguity for themselves?
Best regards
David Harper
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, England
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