"Ricardo Malafaia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my complaint is that, like i said, "timestamp with time zone" is no > good substitute for a simple "datetime". Here, someone suggested a > CREATE DOMAIN to create an alias for it. Why isn't it provided there > out-of-the-box by default? So you have the SQL standard timestamp and > the industry standard datetime.
In which part of the industry is "datetime" industry standard? Last I heard, the SQL spec was the industry standard. > and, while $$ is a whole lot better than '', why do we really need > these? Why not a normal, simple, begin end block or {}? Doesn't work real well for arbitrary PL languages: you are effectively assuming that the main SQL parser can lex every language anyone might want to write a PL with. I think I need stray no further than plperl to provide a counterexample: should the SQL parser be expected to realize that qq/end/ does not represent a matching "end"? > and Tom, i don't really want a GUI: No, but it sounds like your co-workers do. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly