Re: timestamp column default changed?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Laurette Cisneros" <laurette(at)nextbus(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: timestamp column default changed?
Date: 2002-09-12 02:10:12
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOKEDDCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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timestamp becoming timestamp without time zone is actually the SQL
standard...

Chris

> I'm sure you all have discussed this ad-nauseum but this sure
> does create a
> pain in the butt when converting.
>
> Ok, I had my say.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work,
>
> L.
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Laurette Cisneros wrote:
> > >
> > > If you define a column as:
> > > col timestamp
> > > In 7.2.x didn't it default to timestamp with timezone?
> > >
> > > And now in 7.3(b1) it defaults to timestamp without timezone?
> >
> > /HISTORY says right at the top:
> >
> > * TIMESTAMP and TIME data types now default to WITHOUT TIMEZONE
> >
> >
>
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