From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | Troels Arvin <troels(at)arvin(dot)dk> |
Cc: | <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Non-standard TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE literal handling |
Date: | 2003-08-07 15:23:41 |
Message-ID: | 20030807082209.M34664-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Troels Arvin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Jim Melton and Alan Simon's "SQL:1999 - Understanding Relational
> Language Components" (ISBN 1-55860-456-1), they write that the following
> is to be interpreted as a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE value:
>
> TIMESTAMP '2003-07-29 13:19:30.5+02:00'
>
> PostgreSQL interprets the above as a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE value of
> '2003-07-29 13:19:30.5', i.e. it simply discards the '+02:00' part and
> fails to interpret it as being of TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE type.
>
> Unless Melton+Simon are wrong, PostgreSQL is not completely following
> SQL:1999 regarding TIMESTAMP-like literal parsing.
I think they're correct and we're wrong:
SQL92 5.3 Syntax rules:
17)The data type of a <timestamp literal> that does not specify
<time zone interval> is TIMESTAMP(P), where P is the number of
digits in <seconds fraction>, if specified, and 0 otherwise.
The data type of a <timestamp literal> that specifies <time zone
interval> is TIMESTAMP(P) WITH TIME ZONE, where P is the number
of digits in <seconds fraction>, if specified, and 0
otherwise.
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