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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Mike Elston <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Specified date type but created column is timestamp without time zone
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:31:18 -0400
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Mike Elston <[email protected]> writes:
> I created a table containing a column of type "date" but the
> describe command reports that the created column is "timestamp without time
> zone". Why isn't it simply "date"?

> psql (EnterpriseDB) 13.4.8

If you're using EDB, their server is hacked in a lot of ways to act
more like Oracle, and I think this discrepancy is one of them.
Oracle's idea of "date" corresponds more or less to our "timestamp",
so they translate.

			regards, tom lane

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