Re: text -> time cast problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: text -> time cast problem
Date
Msg-id 6424.1007505044@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to text -> time cast problem  (Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Nope, the docs represent the behavior of the code at the time the docs
> were written.  The code is now in error with respect to the documented
> behaviour.  A quick check shows that PostgreSQL 7.0.2 agrees with
> including the fractional part.

[ checks ... ] As does 7.1.  You're right, that is how it used to behave.

> For details, I refer you to my Oct 5 message "Unhappiness with forced
> precision conversion for timestamp", where we already discussed
> essentially the same issue, but apparently we never did anything about it.

I think the rest of us were waiting on Lockhart to opine about it ...
not to mention do something about it ...
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Jan Wieck
Date:
Subject: Re: RC1 on Monday?
Next
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: text -> time cast problem