2013/7/2 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> 2013/7/1 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:
>> On 7/1/13 3:47 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> and it is a part of our ToDo: "Add function to allow the creation of
>>> timestamps using parameters"
>>>
>>> so we can have a functions with signatures
>>
>> I would just name them date(...), time(...), etc.
I tested this names, and I got a syntax error for function "time"
we doesn't support real type constructors, and parser doesn't respect syntax.
so we can use a different names, or we can try to implement type
constructor functions.
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Regards
Pavel
>>
>
> +1
>
>>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION construct_date(year int, month int DEFAULT
>>> 1, day int DEFAULT 1) RETURNS date;
>>
>> I would not use default values for this one.
>>
>
> I have no problem with it
>
>>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION construct_time(hour int DEFAULT 0, mi int
>>> DEFAULT 0, sec int DEFAULT 0, ms float DEFAULT 0.0);
>>
>> If we are using integer datetime storage, we shouldn't use floats to
>> construct them.
>>
>
> so possible signature signature should be
>
> CREATE FUNCTION time(hour int, mi int, sec int, used int) ??
>
> and
>
> CREATE FUNCTION timetz(hour int, mi int, sec int, isec int, tz int)
>
> ??
>
> Regards
>
> Pavel
