Brendan Jurd <direvus@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > timeofday() returns text, and moreover it returns in a bizarre format > which cannot be converted directly into any useful temporal types, at > least not in 8.0.2: Hm? Works fine for me. What datestyle setting do you have exactly? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly