Forward-compatible expressions LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP -----------------------------------------------------------
Key: CORE-5853 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5853 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: Engine Reporter: Adriano dos Santos Fernandes In version 4.0, Firebird will support time zones. Within this support will come an incompatibility with previous versions' `CURRENT_TIME` and `CURRENT_TIMESTAMP` expressions. In v4, `CURRENT_TIME` and `CURRENT_TIMESTAMP` will respectively return expressions of data type `TIME WITH TIME ZONE` and `TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE`. To make your queries and database code compatible with future versions, from v3.0.4 you can instead use `LOCALTIME` and `LOCALTIMESTAMP`. In v3, these `LOCAL*` expressions will work indenticaly to their correspondents `CURRENT_*` expressions. In v4, `LOCAL*` expressions will continue to work identically as now, but the `CURRENT_*` expressions will change. You should not start using `LOCALTIME` and `LOCALTIMESTAMP` if your database may be downgraded to v3.0.3 or another version, as the old versions will not recognize the new expressions. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel