From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magne Mæhre <Magne.Mahre@Sun.COM>
Cc: Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is DATETIME an ANSI-SQL type?
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:53:32 -0500
Message-ID: <24168.1200412412@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478CB8FB.5040600@sun.com>
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<478CB8FB.5040600@sun.com>
=?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).
regards, tom lane
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