On Thursday, June 23, 2011 1:42:42 pm hernan gonzalez wrote: > Fair enough: to_timestamp doesn't do what I want, I must resort to casting. > > But it's rather unfortunate that a to_timestamp() function doesnt actually > parse a "timestamp" (which, is a alias to "timestamp without timezone", at > least since PG 7.3) .
To split hairs to_timestamp() parses a string and returns a timestamp with time zone. What you want is a function that parses a string and does not editorialize the result. FYI the code that handles this is located in the source at: src/backend/utils/adt as formatting.c > > BTW, the "set datestyle" workaround can be umpractical in some scenarios > (case in point: I have a view that returns some column as "timestamp" by > doing that parsing from a text colum ) I even can't put a "SET DATESTYLE" > (or a SET TIMEZONE=UTC)" in a function, unless I make it VOLATILE, which I > certainly would not like. Might want to look at one of the non-pgsql languages that have their own timezone/date handling code. Basically do an end run around Postgres. > > Regards > > Hernán J. González -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
