Re: interval and timestamp change?

From: Chris Ruprecht <chrup999(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "postgresql" <pgsql(at)symcom(dot)com>
Cc: "PgSQL-SQL" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: interval and timestamp change?
Date: 2002-01-27 00:46:58
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Ted,

Tom (Lane) told me a while ago that they changed timestamp and time
to be SQL92 compliant and they changed the way this now works.

Here is Tom's explanation from that time:
TIME is a reserved word now, or at least more reserved than it used to
be. You'll need to write 'now'::time or CAST('now' AS time). Sorry
about that, but SQL92 requires it...

Best regards,
Chris

At 19:03 -0500 01/26/2002, postgresql wrote:
>this works on postgresql 7.1.3.
>
>SELECT interval(('1/30/02 12:30 pm'::timestamp) - 'now');
>
>However, it is failing on the current beta. I have to change it to:
>
>SELECT ('1/30/02 12:30 pm'::timestamp) - 'now';
>
>Is this change to make PG more ANSI compliant? Was this
>documented? It took me a bit of hacking to find the correct syntax in
>7.2.
>
>Ted
>
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Chris Ruprecht
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