Question about inscrutable cast syntax - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kevin Murphy
Subject Question about inscrutable cast syntax
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Msg-id 494BC4EF.6030105@genome.chop.edu
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Responses Re: Question about inscrutable cast syntax  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Two versions of an application differ in the way a particular column is
defined.

OLD:

lastupdated timestamp without time zone DEFAULT
('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone NOT NULL

NEW:

lastupdated timestamp without time zone DEFAULT now() NOT NULL

I believe these are both the result of an automatic mysql-to-postgresql
conversion process rather than hand-coded.

For my personal edification, I'd like to understand what's going on with
that first one!  Note that the column type is timestamp without time
zone, so I'm also curious about the 'with time zone' modifier in the
first example.

Thanks,
Kevin Murphy


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