timestamp() functions still documented

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

There are seven timestamp() functions in pg_proc and I don't think any
of them can be used; should they not be removed or renamed?

Not unless you want to break the cast operations that use these
functions. OID 2025 isn't a cast and perhaps should be renamed,
but the rest are correct as-is.

I do agree that something needs to be done with the documentation...

regards, tom lane

...

There are seven timestamp() functions in pg_proc and I don't think any
of them can be used; should they not be removed or renamed?

They are used internally for type coersion. The problem is only at the
parser level, where SQL9x mandates a conflicting syntax.

- Thomas

Patch applied.

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Oliver Elphick wrote:
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The functions timestamp(date) and timestamp(date, time) are still
documented, but cannot be used because the parser interprets
timestamp(xx) as timestamp with precision.

So the documentation of those functions ought to be removed, because it
confuses users (the same applies to the documentation of 7.2.1):

Index: doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.96
diff -c -r1.96 func.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/func.sgml	2002/04/26 01:24:08	1.96
--- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml	2002/05/03 08:40:01
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*** 2730,2750 ****
<entry><literal>Wed Feb 21 17:01:13.000126 2001 EST</literal></entry>
</row>

-        <row>
- 	<entry><function>timestamp</function>(<type>date</type>)</entry>
- 	<entry><type>timestamp</type></entry>
- 	<entry><type>date</type> to <type>timestamp</type></entry>
- 	<entry><literal>timestamp(date '2000-12-25')</literal></entry>
- 	<entry><literal>2000-12-25 00:00:00</literal></entry>
-        </row>
- 
-        <row>
- 	<entry><function>timestamp</function>(<type>date</type>,
<type>time</type>)</entry>
- 	<entry><type>timestamp</type></entry>
- 	<entry><type>date</type> and <type>time</type> to
<type>timestamp</type></entry>
- 	<entry><literal>timestamp(date '1998-02-24',time
'23:07')</literal></entry>
- 	<entry><literal>1998-02-24 23:07:00</literal></entry>
-        </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
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There are seven timestamp() functions in pg_proc and I don't think any
of them can be used; should they not be removed or renamed?

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