Re: BUG #4377: casting result of timeofday() to timestamp fails in some timezones - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: BUG #4377: casting result of timeofday() to timestamp fails in some timezones
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Msg-id 200809060042.m860gi323329@momjian.us
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In response to Re: BUG #4377: casting result of timeofday() to timestamp fails in some timezones  ("Todd A. Cook" <tcook@blackducksoftware.com>)
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Todd A. Cook wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > In the meantime, why aren't you just using clock_timestamp()?
> > timeofday() is deprecated.
>
> I am using clock_timestamp() now.  The use of timeofday() was from the era
> when 8.0 was hot stuff.
>
> BTW, the word "deprecated" does not appear on the docs page where timeofday()
> is listed (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-datetime.html),
> and there doesn't seem to be anything in the context of the 3 occurrences of
> "timeofday" that would imply it is deprecated.

Uh, we will probably never remove timeofday() but the new functions are
clearer.

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