near daylight savings time boudaries. This handles it properly, e.g.
test=> select '2005-04-03 04:00:00'::timestamp at time zone
'America/Los_Angeles';
timezone
------------------------
2005-04-03 07:00:00-04
(1 row)
test=> select (CURRENT_DATE + '05:00'::time)::timestamp at time zone
'Canada/Pacific';
timezone
------------------------
2005-07-22 08:00:00-04
(1 row)
test=> select ('2005-07-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) at
time zone 'Europe/Paris';
timezone
------------------------
2005-07-19 22:00:00-04
Udpate documentation.
24 hours. This is very helpful for daylight savings time:
select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '24 hours';
?column?
----------------------
2005-05-04 01:00:00-04
select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '1 day';
?column?
----------------------
2005-05-04 01:00:00-04
Michael Glaesemann
test=> select '4 months'::interval / 5;
?column?
---------------
1 mon -6 days
(1 row)
after:
test=> select '4 months'::interval / 5;
?column?
----------
24 days
(1 row)
The problem was the use of rint() to round, and then find the remainder,
causing the negative values.
optional arguments as text input functions, ie, typioparam OID and
atttypmod. Make all the datatypes that use typmod enforce it the same
way in typreceive as they do in typinput. This fixes a problem with
failure to enforce length restrictions during COPY FROM BINARY.
current time: provide a GetCurrentTimestamp() function that returns
current time in the form of a TimestampTz, instead of separate time_t
and microseconds fields. This is what all the callers really want
anyway, and it eliminates low-level dependencies on AbsoluteTime,
which is a deprecated datatype that will have to disappear eventually.
"AT TIME ZONE", and not just the shorlist previously available. For
example:
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';
works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in effect at
just that date, which the previous implementation did not.
It also supports the AT TIME ZONE on the timetz datatype. The whole
handling of DST is a bit bogus there, so I chose to make it use whatever
DST rules are in effect at the time of executig the query. not sure if
anybody is actuallyi *using* timetz though, it seems pretty
unpredictable just because of this...
Magnus Hagander
working buffer into ParseDateTime() and reject too-long input there,
rather than checking the length of the input string before calling
ParseDateTime(). The old method was bogus because ParseDateTime() can use
a variable amount of working space, depending on the content of the
input string (e.g. how many fields need to be NUL terminated). This fixes
a minor stack overrun -- I don't _think_ it's exploitable, although I
won't claim to be an expert.
Along the way, fix a bug reported by Mark Dilger: the working buffer
allocated by interval_in() was too short, which resulted in rejecting
some perfectly valid interval input values. I added a regression test for
this fix.
* Changes the APIs to the timezone functions to take a pg_tz pointer as
an argument, representing the timezone to use for the selected
operation.
* Adds a global_timezone variable that represents the current timezone
in the backend as set by SET TIMEZONE (or guc, or env, etc).
* Implements a hash-table cache of loaded tables, so we don't have to
read and parse the TZ file everytime we change a timezone. While not
necesasry now (we don't change timezones very often), I beleive this
will be necessary (or at least good) when "multiple timezones in the
same query" is eventually implemented. And code-wise, this was the time
to do it.
There are no user-visible changes at this time. Implementing the
"multiple zones in one query" is a later step...
This also gets rid of some of the cruft needed to "back out a timezone
change", since we previously couldn't check a timezone unless it was
activated first.
Passes regression tests on win32, linux (slackware 10) and solaris x86.
Magnus Hagander
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
to DAY precision or coarser; leave the timezone alone when precision is
HOUR or less. This avoids surprises for inputs near a DST transition
time, as per example from Matthew Gabeler-Lee. (The only reason we
recalculate at all is so that outputs that are supposed to represent
days will come out as local midnight, and that's not relevant for sub-day
precision.)
> why does CVS tip still give me
>
> regression=# select extract(century from now());
> date_part
> -----------
> 20
> (1 row)
> [ ... looks in code ... ]
>
> Apparently it's because you fixed only timestamp_part, and not
> timestamptz_part. I'm not too sure about what timestamp_trunc or
> timestamptz_trunc should do, but they may be wrong as well.
Sigh... as usual, what is not tested does not work:-(
> Could we have a more complete patch?
Please find a submission attached. I hope it really fixes all decade,
century and millenium issues for extract and *_trunc functions on
interval
and other timestamp types. If someone could check that the results
are reasonnable, it would be great.
I indeed overlooked the fact that there were two functions. The patch
fixes the code so that both variants agree.
I added comments to interval extractions, because it relies on the C
division to have a negative remainder: -7/10 = 0 and remains -7.
As for *_trunc functions, I have chosen to put the first year of the
century or millennium: -100, 1, 101... 1001 2001 etc. Indeed, I don't
think it would make sense to put 2000 (last year of the 2nd millennium)
for rounding all years of the third millenium.
I also fixed the code so that all decades last 10 years and decade 199
means the 1990's.
I have added some tests that are relevant to deal with tricky cases. The
formula may be simplified, but all these cases must pass. Please keep
them.
Fabien Coelho
place of time_t, as per prior discussion. The behavior does not change
on machines without a 64-bit-int type, but on machines with one, which
is most, we are rid of the bizarre boundary behavior at the edges of
the 32-bit-time_t range (1901 and 2038). The system will now treat
times over the full supported timestamp range as being in your local
time zone. It may seem a little bizarre to consider that times in
4000 BC are PST or EST, but this is surely at least as reasonable as
propagating Gregorian calendar rules back that far.
I did not modify the format of the zic timezone database files, which
means that for the moment the system will not know about daylight-savings
periods outside the range 1901-2038. Given the way the files are set up,
it's not a simple decision like 'widen to 64 bits'; we have to actually
think about the range of years that need to be supported. We should
probably inquire what the plans of the upstream zic people are before
making any decisions of our own.
issue in timestamp conversion that we hacked around for so long by
ignoring the seconds field from localtime(). It's simple: you have
to watch out for platform-specific roundoff error when reducing a
possibly-fractional timestamp to integral time_t form. In particular
we should subtract off the already-determined fractional fsec field.
This should be enough to get an exact answer with int64 timestamps;
with float timestamps, throw in a rint() call just to be sure.
and should do now that we control our own destiny for timezone handling,
but this commit gets the bulk of the picayune diffs in place.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
conversion of basic ASCII letters. Remove all uses of strcasecmp and
strncasecmp in favor of new functions pg_strcasecmp and pg_strncasecmp;
remove most but not all direct uses of toupper and tolower in favor of
pg_toupper and pg_tolower. These functions use the same notions of
case folding already developed for identifier case conversion. I left
the straight locale-based folding in place for situations where we are
just manipulating user data and not trying to match it to built-in
strings --- for example, the SQL upper() function is still locale
dependent. Perhaps this will prove not to be what's wanted, but at
the moment we can initdb and pass regression tests in Turkish locale.
"millennium" date part implementation in postgresql, both in the code
and the documentation, so that it conforms to the official definition.
If you do not agree with the official definition, please send your
complaint to "pope@vatican.org". I'm not responsible for them;-)
With the previous version, the centuries and millenniums had a wrong
number and started the wrong year. Moreover century number 0, which does
not exist in reality, lasted 200 years. Also, millennium number 0 lasted
2000 years.
If you want postgresql to have it's own definition of "century" and
"millennium" that does not conform to the one of the society, just give
them another name. I would suggest "pgCENTURY" and "pgMILLENNIUM";-)
IMO, if someone may use the options, it means that postgresql is used for
historical data, so it make sense to have an historical definition. Also,
I just want to divide the year by 100 or 1000, I can do that quite easily.
BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE
Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
support for 'week' within the date_trunc function.
Within the patch I added a couple of test cases and associated target
output, and changed the documentation to add 'week' appropriately.
Robert Creager
vs. timestamptz. This allows use of indexes for expressions like
datecol >= date 'today' - interval '1 month'
which were formerly not indexable without casting the righthand side
down from timestamp to date.
> > needed, and other people in the past asked about it too.
>
> It is in Oracle, but you aren't exactly on the spot. It should be
>
> IYYY - 4 digits ('2003')
> IYY - 3 digits ('003')
> IY - 2 digits ('03')
> I - 1 digit ('3')
Here is an updated patch that does that.
Kurt Roeckx
SQLSTATE error codes required by SQL99 (invalid format, datetime field
overflow, interval field overflow, invalid time zone displacement value).
Also emit a HINT about DateStyle in cases where it seems appropriate.
Per recent gripes.
encountered; per bug report from Christian van der Leeden 8/7/03.
Also, adjust larger/smaller routines (MAX/MIN) to share code with
comparisons for timestamp, interval, timetz.
for the sign of timezone offsets, ie, positive is east from UTC. These
were previously out of step with other operations that accept or show
timezones, such as I/O of timestamptz values.
what is capable using integer-datatime timestamps. It does attempt
to exercise the maximum allowable timestamp range.
Also is a small error check when converting a timestamp from external
to internal format that prevents out of range timestamps from being
entered.
Files patched:
Index: src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c
Added range check to prevent out of range timestamps
from being used.
Index: src/test/regress/sql/horology.sql
Index: src/test/regress/expected/horology-no-DST-before-1970.out
Index: src/test/regress/expected/horology-solaris-1947.out
Limited range of timestamps being checked to
Jan 1, 4713 BC to Dec 31, 294276
In creating this patch, I have seen some definite problems with integer
timestamps and how they react when used near their limits. For example,
the following statement gives the correct result:
SELECT timestamp without time zone 'Jan 1, 4713 BC'
+ interval '109203489 days' AS "Dec 31, 294276";
However, this statement which is the logical inverse of the above
gives incorrect results:
SELECT timestamp without time zone '12/31/294276'
- timestamp without time zone 'Jan 1, 4713 BC' AS "109203489 Days";
John Cochran
division and modulo functions, to avoid problems on OS X (which fails to
trap 0 divide at all) and Windows (which traps it in some bizarre
nonstandard fashion). Standardize on 'division by zero' as the one true
spelling of this error message. Add regression tests as suggested by
Neil Conway.
is assumed to be in local time, not GMT. This improves consistency with
other operations, which all assume local timezone when it matters. Per
bug #897.
setting timezone-related variables during transaction start. They were
not used anyway in platforms that HAVE_TM_ZONE or HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE,
which it appears is *all* the platforms we are currently supporting.
For platforms that have neither, we now only support UTC or numeric-
offset-from-UTC timezones.
per gripe from Csaba Nagy. There is still potential for platform-specific
behavior for values that are exactly halfway between integers, but at
least we now get the expected answer for all other cases.
anymore given the mktime() workaround now done in DetermineLocalTimeZone.
This has now been confirmed by Robert Bruccoleri for Irix, and I'm going
to extrapolate to AIX as well.
array header, and to compute sizing and alignment of array elements
the same way normal tuple access operations do --- viz, using the
tupmacs.h macros att_addlength and att_align. This makes the world
safe for arrays of cstrings or intervals, and should make it much
easier to write array-type-polymorphic functions; as examples see
the cleanups of array_out and contrib/array_iterator. By Joe Conway
and Tom Lane.
strings. Should go back in and look at doing this a bit more elegantly
and (hopefully) cheaper. Probably not too bad anyway, but it seems a
shame to scan the strings twice: once for length for this buffer overrun
protection, and once to parse the line.
Remove use of pow() in date/time handling; was already gone from everything
*but* the time data types.
Define macros for handling typmod manipulation for date/time types.
Should be more robust than all of that brute-force inline code.
Rename macros for masking and typmod manipulation to put TIMESTAMP_
or INTERVAL_ in front of the macro name, to reduce the possibility
of name space collisions.
Use "--enable-integer-datetimes" in configuration to use this rather
than the original float8 storage. I would recommend the integer-based
storage for any platform on which it is available. We perhaps should
make this the default for the production release.
Change timezone(timestamptz) results to return timestamp rather than
a character string. Formerly, we didn't have a way to represent
timestamps with an explicit time zone other than freezing the info into
a string. Now, we can reasonably omit the explicit time zone from the
result and return a timestamp with values appropriate for the specified
time zone. Much cleaner, and if you need the time zone in the result
you can put it into a character string pretty easily anyway.
Allow fractional seconds in date/time types even for dates prior to 1BC.
Limit timestamp data types to 6 decimal places of precision. Just right
for a micro-second storage of int8 date/time types, and reduces the
number of places ad-hoc rounding was occuring for the float8-based types.
Use lookup tables for precision/rounding calculations for timestamp and
interval types. Formerly used pow() to calculate the desired value but
with a more limited range there is no reason to not type in a lookup
table. Should be *much* better performance, though formerly there were
some optimizations to help minimize the number of times pow() was called.
Define a HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP variable. Based on the configure option
"--enable-integer-datetimes" and the existing internal INT64_IS_BUSTED.
Add explicit date/interval operators and functions for addition and
subtraction. Formerly relied on implicit type promotion from date to
timestamp with time zone.
Change timezone conversion functions for the timetz type from "timetz()"
to "timezone()". This is consistant with other time zone coersion
functions for other types.
Bump the catalog version to 200204201.
Fix up regression tests to reflect changes in fractional seconds
representation for date/times in BC eras.
All regression tests pass on my Linux box.
o Change all current CVS messages of NOTICE to WARNING. We were going
to do this just before 7.3 beta but it has to be done now, as you will
see below.
o Change current INFO messages that should be controlled by
client_min_messages to NOTICE.
o Force remaining INFO messages, like from EXPLAIN, VACUUM VERBOSE, etc.
to always go to the client.
o Remove INFO from the client_min_messages options and add NOTICE.
Seems we do need three non-ERROR elog levels to handle the various
behaviors we need for these messages.
Regression passed.
timestamp/timestamptz combo. Now extract/date_part returns
seconds*1000 or 1000000 + fraction part as the manual stats.
regression test are also fixed.
See the thread in pgsql-hackers:
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] timestamp_part() bug?
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 11:29:53 +0900
Thanks to Bruce for spotting it and Tom Lane for diagnosing it.
Since horology test output is changing anyway, add some date/time input
tests to horology.sql. Some of these should move to the tests for the
individual data types, and we perhaps should add an entire new test
for "timezone" to allow manipulating the current time zone without
risking damage to the results of other tests.
cases which should have worked but did not.
Now supports julian day (J2452271), ISO time labels (T040506) and various
combinations of spaces and run-togethers of dates, times, and time zones.
All regression tests pass, and I have more tests to add after the 7.2
release (don't want to require changes to the ancillary horology result
files until after then).
Mask both typmod subfields for INTERVAL to avoid setting the high bit,
per dire warning from Tom Lane.
Clear tmask for DTK_ISO_TIME case to avoid time zone troubles.
Symptom reported by Tom Lane.
Clean up checking for valid time zone info in output routine.
This should now work for both SQL99 and Unix-style time zones.
Put in explicit check for INTERVAL() typmod rounding to avoid accumulating
cruft in the lower bits. Not sure that this helps, but we'll need to do
something. The symptom is visible with a query like
select interval(2) '10000 days 01:02:03.040506';
Regression tests are patched to repair the Tom Lane symptom, and all pass.
Modified the parser and the SET handlers to use full Node structures
rather than simply a character string argument.
Implement INTERVAL() YEAR TO MONTH (etc) syntax per SQL99.
Does not yet accept the goofy string format that goes along with, but
this should be fairly straight forward to fix now as a bug or later
as a feature.
Implement precision for the INTERVAL() type.
Use the typmod mechanism for both of INTERVAL features.
Fix the INTERVAL syntax in the parser:
opt_interval was in the wrong place.
INTERVAL is now a reserved word, otherwise we get reduce/reduce errors.
Implement an explicit date_part() function for TIMETZ.
Should fix coersion problem with INTERVAL reported by Peter E.
Fix up some error messages for date/time types.
Use all caps for type names within message.
Fix recently introduced side-effect bug disabling 'epoch' as a recognized
field for date_part() etc. Reported by Peter E. (??)
Bump catalog version number.
Rename "microseconds" current transaction time field
from ...Msec to ...Usec. Duh!
date/time regression tests updated for reference platform, but a few
changes will be necessary for others.
-infinity and +infinity. Put TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE guard into the routine,
instead of forgetting it at some call sites. Fixes regression test
failures here.
time zones.
SQL99 spec requires a default of zero (round to seconds) which is set
in gram.y as typmod is set in the parse tree. We *could* change to a
default of either 6 (for internal compatibility with previous versions)
or 2 (for external compatibility with previous versions).
Evaluate entries in pg_proc wrt the iscachable attribute for timestamp and
other date/time types. Try to recognize cases where side effects like the
current time zone setting may have an effect on results to decide whether
something is cachable or not.
Define a new function, GetCurrentTransactionStartTimeUsec() to get the time
to this precision.
Allow now() and timestamp 'now' to use this higher precision result so
we now have fractional seconds in this "constant".
Add timestamp without time zone type.
Move previous timestamp type to timestamp with time zone.
Accept another ISO variant for date/time values: yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
(note the "T" separating the day from hours information).
Remove 'current' from date/time types; convert to 'now' in input.
Separate time and timetz regression tests.
Separate timestamp and timestamptz regression test.
- new millisecond (ms) and microsecond (us) support
- more robus parsing from string - used is separator checking for
non-exact formats like to_date('2001-9-1', 'YYYY-MM-DD')
- SGML docs are included
Karel Zak
routine DetermineLocalTimeZone(). In that routine, be more wary of
broken mktime() implementations than the original code was: don't allow
mktime to change the already-set y/m/d/h/m/s information, and don't
use tm_gmtoff if mktime failed. Possibly this will resolve some of
the complaints we've been hearing from users of Middle Eastern timezones
on RedHat.
give consistent results for all datatypes. Types float4, float8, and
numeric were broken for NaN values; abstime, timestamp, and interval
were broken for INVALID values; timetz was just plain broken (some
possible pairs of values were neither < nor = nor >). Also clean up
text, bpchar, varchar, and bit/varbit to eliminate duplicate code and
thereby reduce the probability of similar inconsistencies arising in
the future.
