Re: Ambiguous language in Table 8.13. Special Date/Time Inputs [EXT]

David Harper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
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> I actually agree with your opinion that "midnight" is fine.
> That text has been that way for over fifteen years[1], and
> nobody's complained before that it was ambiguous.

Conversely, how many users over the past fifteen years have read that table, and then felt compelled (as I did) to run a query such as

  select 'today'::timestamp,'yesterday'::timestamp,'tomorrow'::timestamp;

on their PostgreSQL cluster to clear the ambiguity for themselves?

Best regards

David Harper

Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, England

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