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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting time from timestamp
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Msg-id 10683.1048229716@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting time from timestamp  ("Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>)
Responses Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] Extracting time from timestamp  ("Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>)
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"Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> writes:
> And What's so holy about "" if it is a function?

The problem is that TIME(n) is a datatype name, not a function call,
according to the SQL spec.  Likewise for TIMESTAMP(n), INTERVAL(n),
NUMERIC(m,n), and maybe one or two other special cases I've forgotten.

The SQL spec's love of special-purpose syntaxes is one of its worst
features IMHO ...
        regards, tom lane

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