On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:22 PM, AgentM wrote:
On Oct 2, 2006, at 18:15 , Markus Schaber wrote:
I'm happy that the rather verbose "timestamp with time zone" has the
much nicer alias "timestamptz", however it seems that this alias
is not
documented, neither at
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-
datetime.html
nor at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-
datetime.html
I see it mentioned at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html but
that's
possibly not where people look at first, when they search for the
timestamp type. (At least I found it only when grepping for
"timestamptz" in the docs. :-)
Should the alias be mentioned on the datetime page? The same for
timetz?
What do you think?
I am pleased that the documentation promotes database-independent
("standard") SQL.
There's a difference between promoting and withholding info. I'd
rather see us explicitly state which is preferred and why.
BTW, another confusing example is all the string functions that are
essentially the same, such as substring and substr. (http://
www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html)
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