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From: David Rowley <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: James Coleman <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 10:43:44 +1200
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 13:48, David Rowley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 02:43, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'd be more excited about this discussion if I didn't think that
> > the chances of removing 'now'::timestamp are exactly zero.  You
> > can't just delete useful decades-old features, whether there's
> > a better way or not.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on rejecting trailing punctuation with the
> timestamp special values?

Cancel that idea. I'd thought that these special values must be
standalone, but I didn't realise until a few minutes ago that it's
perfectly valid to mix them:

select 'yesterday 13:00:00'::timestamp, 'yesterday allballs'::timestamp;

David

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