Re: Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults
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Msg-id 20130122010611.120620@gmx.com
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In response to Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
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Adrian Klaver wrote:

> I see where my confusion lies. There are two proposals at work in the above:
>
> "Taking another tangent I would much prefer the default time to be
> 12:00:00 for the conversion of a date to timestamp(+/-timezone)"
>
> "Propose: '2013-12-25'::timestamp ==> 2013-12-25 12:00:00 "
>
> For the timestamp(alias for timestamp without time zone) case the date
> does not change. For timestamp with time zone it might.

Well, the big problem here is in trying to use either version of
timestamp when what you really want is a date. It will be much
easier to get the right semantics if you use the date type for a
date.

-Kevin


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