From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magne Mæhre <Magne.Mahre@Sun.COM>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is DATETIME an ANSI-SQL type?
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:42:31 +0100
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Hi,
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 10:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Magne_M=E6hre?= <Magne.Mahre@Sun.COM> writes:
> > Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> >> Can anyone tell me if DATETIME is an ANSI SQL type?
>
> > No.
> > The Datetime types defined in SQL (ISO/IEC 9075:2003) are
>
> > DATE
> > TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE
> > TIME WITH TIME ZONE
> > TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE
> > TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
>
> If you need to port from a system that used DATETIME as a type name,
> consider defining DATETIME as a domain over whichever of the standard
> types seems to have the closest semantics (likely the last of these).
Thanks for the confirmation and tips.
--
Groeten,
Joost Kraaijeveld
Askesis B.V.
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tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277
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