Thread: Specified date type but created column is timestamp without time zone
Hi
I created a table containing a column of type "date" but the describe command reports that the created column is "timestamp without time zone". Why isn't it simply "date"?
psql (EnterpriseDB) 13.4.8
mifis=> create table test (test_date date);
CREATE TABLE
mifis=> describe test;
Table "public.test"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
-----------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+---------
test_date | timestamp without time zone | | |
CREATE TABLE
mifis=> describe test;
Table "public.test"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default
-----------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+---------
test_date | timestamp without time zone | | |
According to https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-datetime.html date is a distinct type occupying four bytes whereas timestamp without time zone occupies 8 bytes.
Thanks
Mike
Mike Elston <mike.elston@gmail.com> writes:
> I created a table containing a column of type "date" but the
> describe command reports that the created column is "timestamp without time
> zone". Why isn't it simply "date"?
> psql (EnterpriseDB) 13.4.8
If you're using EDB, their server is hacked in a lot of ways to act
more like Oracle, and I think this discrepancy is one of them.
Oracle's idea of "date" corresponds more or less to our "timestamp",
so they translate.
regards, tom lane