Re: text -> time cast problem

Just a quick question for 7.1.3:

I notice that where as you can do this:

insert into table values ('now');

To insert a current timestamp, if you try using the more standard syntax:

insert into table values ('CURRENT_TIMESTAMP');

You get the word 'current' inserted.  However if you do this:

insert into table values (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);

It works as expected.

Is there anything wrong with any of these behaviours, and has any of it been
changed for 7.2?  I kind think that the quoted CURRENT_TIMESTAMP should work
just like the unquoted...

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Friday, 7 December 2001 10:21 PM
> To: Brent Verner
> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; PostgreSQL Development; Thomas Lockhart
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] text -> time cast problem
>
>
> Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> writes:
> > This seems fair.  Would this approach imply that CURRENT_TIME and
> > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP should not apply default precision to their return
> > values?  Right now, "CURRENT_TIME" is equivalent to "CURRENT_TIME(0)"
> > and "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" eq to "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(6)".
>
> Yes, I had been thinking that myself, but hadn't got round to mentioning
> it to the list yet.  (Even if you do accept default precisions for time
> & timestamp columns, I can see nothing in the spec that justifies
> applying those default precisions to CURRENT_TIME/TIMESTAMP.  AFAICS,
> the precision of their results when they are given no argument is
> just plain not specified.)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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