-- -- TIME -- CREATE TABLE TIME_TBL (f1 time(2)); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('00:00'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('01:00'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('02:03'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('07:07 PST'); ERROR: Bad time external representation '07:07 PST' INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('08:08 EDT'); ERROR: Bad time external representation '08:08 EDT' INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('11:59'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('12:00'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('12:01'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('23:59'); INSERT INTO TIME_TBL VALUES ('11:59:59.99 PM'); SELECT f1 AS "Time" FROM TIME_TBL; Time ------------- 00:00:00 01:00:00 02:03:00 11:59:00 12:00:00 12:01:00 23:59:00 23:59:59.99 (8 rows) SELECT f1 AS "Three" FROM TIME_TBL WHERE f1 < '05:06:07'; Three ---------- 00:00:00 01:00:00 02:03:00 (3 rows) SELECT f1 AS "Five" FROM TIME_TBL WHERE f1 > '05:06:07'; Five ------------- 11:59:00 12:00:00 12:01:00 23:59:00 23:59:59.99 (5 rows) SELECT f1 AS "None" FROM TIME_TBL WHERE f1 < '00:00'; None ------ (0 rows) SELECT f1 AS "Eight" FROM TIME_TBL WHERE f1 >= '00:00'; Eight ------------- 00:00:00 01:00:00 02:03:00 11:59:00 12:00:00 12:01:00 23:59:00 23:59:59.99 (8 rows) -- -- TIME simple math -- -- We now make a distinction between time and intervals, -- and adding two times together makes no sense at all. -- Leave in one query to show that it is rejected, -- and do the rest of the testing in horology.sql -- where we do mixed-type arithmetic. - thomas 2000-12-02 SELECT f1 + time '00:01' AS "Illegal" FROM TIME_TBL; ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '+' for types 'time without time zone' and 'time without time zone' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast