Timestamp and interval precision - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vilson farias
Subject Timestamp and interval precision
Date
Msg-id 011201c39a32$d7f1b490$98a0a8c0@dgtac
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Responses Re: Timestamp and interval precision
List pgsql-general
Greetings,

  I was doing some tests with timestamps and intervals and I've discovered,
for my surprise, that I can't set precision for resulting fields of type
interval when I'm executing a query. Please follow my tests :

bxs=# select CAST('10:32:14.553243' AS interval);
    interval
-----------------
 10:32:14.553243
(1 row)

bxs=# select CAST('10:32:14.553243' AS interval(0));
    interval
-----------------
 10:32:14.553243
(1 row)


But I can set precision when it's a timestamp :

bxs=# SELECT CAST('2003-10-09 23:45:34.543543' AS timestamp);
         timestamp
----------------------------
 2003-10-09 23:45:34.543543
(1 row)

bxs=# SELECT CAST('2003-10-09 23:45:34.543543' AS timestamp(0));
      timestamp
---------------------
 2003-10-09 23:45:35
(1 row)

Is it a known limitation?


Best regards,

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José Vilson de Mello de Farias
Software Engineer

Dígitro Tecnologia Ltda - www.digitro.com.br
APC - Customer Oriented Applications
E-mail: vilson.farias@digitro.com.br
Tel.: +55 48 281 7158
ICQ 11866179


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