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From: AgentM <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL-development hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: timestamptz alias
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 18:22:39 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Oct 2, 2006, at 18:15 , Markus Schaber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm happy that the rather verbose "timestamp with time zone" has the
> much nicer alias "timestamptz", however it seems that this alias is  
> not
> documented, neither at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html
> nor at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype- 
> datetime.html
>
> I see it mentioned at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html but  
> that's
> possibly not where people look at first, when they search for the
> timestamp type. (At least I found it only when grepping for
> "timestamptz" in the docs. :-)
>
> Should the alias be mentioned on the datetime page? The same for  
> timetz?
> What do you think?

I am pleased that the documentation promotes database-independent   
("standard") SQL.

-M

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