Re: timestamptz alias

On Oct 2, 2006, at 18:15 , Markus Schaber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm happy that the rather verbose "timestamp with time zone" has the
> much nicer alias "timestamptz", however it seems that this alias is
> not
> documented, neither at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html
> nor at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-
> datetime.html
>
> I see it mentioned at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html but
> that's
> possibly not where people look at first, when they search for the
> timestamp type. (At least I found it only when grepping for
> "timestamptz" in the docs. :-)
>
> Should the alias be mentioned on the datetime page? The same for
> timetz?
> What do you think?

I am pleased that the documentation promotes database-independent
("standard") SQL.

-M