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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
Cc: Judith Altamirano Figueroa <jaltamirano@correolux.com.mx>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: time
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:13:43 -0500
Message-ID: <11040.1131650023@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051110182139.GA87715@winnie.fuhr.org>
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	<20051110182139.GA87715@winnie.fuhr.org>

Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> writes:
> Am I missing something?  Is there a reason not to simply cast the
> timestamp value to time?

> test=> select now()::time;
>        now       
> -----------------
>  11:19:19.892125
> (1 row)

> test=> select cast(now() as time);
>        now       
> -----------------
>  11:19:19.892125
> (1 row)

I think the OP was trying to use the functional cast syntax
	time(now())
which worked long ago, but has not since we added the
SQL-spec time precision syntax.

			regards, tom lane



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