On 2012-01-27, bbo...@free.fr <bbo...@free.fr> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> again quite a stupid problem i regularly run into....
> and that i still haven't solved yet...
>
> again i used a type timestamp to keep a track of modification time,
> and again it gets stupid and confusing.....           

oops!  (when recording events timestamp with timezone is usually best)

> first of all the errors are labeled as timestamp without timezone, i
> only specified timestamp....    

it's the same thing since 8.1

> the data was created as a timestamp with php-mktime, but when
> sending to the database postgres complains that its an int, and when i
> try to typecast it, (with the ::timestamp appendix to the value), that
> its not possible to convert an int to a timestamp (without timezone)
> .....     

> so as usual i would discard the timezone datatype and alter the
> table to use integer instead, but this time i am wondering, since this
> datatype is present, there's surely a way to use it properly? but how?

just use a string in this format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.sssssss +NN:NN"

 

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