Re: timestamp format bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: timestamp format bug
Date
Msg-id 47A1D476.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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In response to Re: timestamp format bug  ("Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>)
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>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:34 PM, in message
<1A6E6D554222284AB25ABE3229A92762715526@nrtexcus702.int.asurion.com>, "Roberts,
Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com> wrote:
> doesn't round the zeros off for timestamp
Sorry to have been so slow, but I think this is the crux of it:
A timestamp represents a moment in time, without storing any
precision information.  These timestamp literals represent exactly
the same moment, and therefore have exactly the same internal
representation:
timestamp '2008-01-31 12:31:40.50'
timestamp '2008-01-31 12:31:40.500'
timestamp '2008-01-31 12:31:40.500000'
to_char turns that into a string of your chosen format.
I hope that helps.
-Kevin




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