Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar dic 07 15:35:53 -0300 2010: > Chris <ctlaj...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Is this a new alias, or > > has it been around for some time? > > It's been around since the '90s I'm sure, maybe even back to Berkeley days. It appeared later; "timestamp" was the alias for "timestamp with time zone" previously. But this was against the SQL standard so the new alias was introduced as a backwards incompatible change. There are no hits for a "grep -r timestamptz src/backend" in 7.1, but they are there in 7.2. 2002 or so, then. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
