Dario V. Fassi wrote:
> I say that would help a lot if the microseconds part of a timestamp will
> be zero padded to a minimum length of 5 or 6 digits.
>
> Like:
>
> "then most databases can take 2004-07-10 12:59:59.123 as 2004-07-10
> 12:59:59.123000 "
>
> This behavior help is cross (vendor) database operations .
Isn't this done by the driver already when dealing with a
java.sql.Timestamp? Do you have a testcase that shows the problem?
The server itself seems to already handle zero-padding just fine:
> test=> select '2004-07-10 12:59:59.000123'::timestamp(6);
> timestamp
> ----------------------------
> 2004-07-10 12:59:59.000123
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select '2004-07-10 12:59:59.123'::timestamp(6);
> timestamp
> -------------------------
> 2004-07-10 12:59:59.123
> (1 row)
>
>
> test=> select '2004-07-10 12:59:59.123000'::timestamp(6);
> timestamp
> -------------------------
> 2004-07-10 12:59:59.123
> (1 row)
-O
