Re: Adding time to DATE type

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding time to DATE type
Date: 2000-06-13 13:25:29
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10006131524111.20240-100000@Ulv.DoCS.UU.SE
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> > * make 'text' constants default to text type (not unknown)

> I think it's fine to assign string literals a type of 'unknown'
> initially. What we need to do is add a phase of type resolution that
> considers treating them as text, but only after the existing logic fails
> to deduce a type.

Hence "default to"

--
Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net 75262 Uppsala
http://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Thomas Lockhart 2000-06-13 13:32:21 Re: trim() spec
Previous Message Peter Mount 2000-06-13 13:23:54 RE: Integrating Sendmail with PostgreSQL