Re: timestamp parse error

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Tomas Lehuta wrote:

> Hello!
>
> i'm using PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and got strange parse errors..
> could somebody tell me what's wrong with this timestamp query example?
>
> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "date"
> Your query:
>
> select timestamp(date '1998-02-24', time '23:07')
>
> example is from PostgreSQL help and certainly worked in previous versions of
> pgsql.. but in 7.2.1 it does not. had anything changed and not been updated
> in pgsql manuals or is it a bug?

Presumably it's a manual example that didn't get changed.  Timestamp(...)
is now a specifier for the type with a given precision.  You can use
"timestamp"(date '1998-02-24', time '23:07') or datetime math (probably
something like date '1998-02-24' + time '23:07' and possibly a cast)