Hi,

I am unable to cast the output of timeofday() to a timestamp under
postgresql 7.3.3-1 under cygwin. I can do so under 7.3.2 running on Linux.

All the best,

Tim

Results as follows:

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Cygwin - Postgresql 7.3.3 - Windows 2000:
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version
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PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on i686-pc-cygwin, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2
20020927 (prerelease)

# select timeofday();

timeofday
---------------------------------------
Fri Jul 25 11:14:50.406227 2003 GMTDT

# select timeofday()::timestamp;
ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'Fri Jul 25
11:15:23.629227 2003 GMTDT'

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Redhat Linux 9, Postgresql 7.3.2
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version
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PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030213 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.2-1)

# select timeofday();
timeofday
-------------------------------------
Fri Jul 25 11:05:23.371428 2003 IST

# select timeofday()::timestamp;
timeofday
----------------------------
2003-07-25 11:05:45.440165





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