Timestamp data type problems - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Olivier PRENANT
Subject Timestamp data type problems
Date
Msg-id Pine.UW2.4.21.0005291422570.3837-100000@server.pyrenet.fr
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Responses Re: Timestamp data type problems  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Please help!

I'm having troubles with the timestamp type:
here's a psql output :

Script started on Mon May 29 13:32:08 2000
~ 13:32:08: psql pyrenet
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms      \h for help with SQL commands      \? for help on internal slash commands
    \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query      \q to quit
 

pyrenet=# select 'today'::date; ?column?  
------------29-05-2000
(1 row)

pyrenet=# select 'today'::timestamp                ?column?                  
-------------------------------------------Mon 29 May 00:00:00 2000 MET DST(ÎäÍ^A
(1 row)

script done on Mon May 29 13:44:30 2000

As you can see, there's no \0 after TZ.

Checking to code led me to EncodeTimeSpan that does strcpy and strncpy and
never puts a null character.

Could this be a bug?

That's breaking all my scripts because if I add a timespan value to it,
then the backend complains about bad formated external timestamp.

Please help!

This is V7.0 on Unixware 7.0.1 compiled with cc.

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