date type conversions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject date type conversions
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980513211642.438D-100000@thelab.hub.org
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How can I tell if an automatic type conversion will be done on
a particular field?  For example, given a datetime field d, why
does psql accept set d = 'now()' but require set d = datetime(now())
without the ''s?  Datetime's seem to work through ODBC to Access
where timestamps turn into text...

  Les Mikesell
   les@mcs.com


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