Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar dic 07 15:35:53 -0300 2010:
> Chris 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
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> See table 8-1 here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype.html
>
> We don't emphasize it, since it's a nonstandard Postgres-ism.
Thanks. I guess I understand why you don't want to emphasize a
non-standard Postgres feature. But why
Chris writes:
> I have been unable to find where it is mentioned that timestamptz can be
> used as shorthand for 'timestamp with time zone'.
See table 8-1 here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype.html
We don't emphasize it, since it's a nonstandard Postgres-ism.
> Is this a new
I have been unable to find where it is mentioned that timestamptz can be
used as shorthand for 'timestamp with time zone'. I discovered I could use
it by trying it out after I saw someone else use it. Is this a new alias, or
has it been around for some time? I am using 9.0, and have not tried it on
