Jeremy Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Drake wrote:
>>
>> > I have found the same thing with the type "timestamp without time
>> zone".
>> > The verbosity of type names seems rather extreme.
>>
>> Then use simply "timestamptz" (with TZ) or "timestamp" (without).
>
> Didn't know about these, learn something new every day I guess. I know
> that double did not work due to the countless times I forget the
> "precision" :)
then use float8.
for a list of all the builtin aliases see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype.html
cheers
andrew
