myview; Making liberal use of views is a key aspect of good SQL database design. Views allow you to en- capsulate the details of the structure of your tables, which may change as your application evolves There is a second kind of identifier: the delimited identifier or quoted identifier. It is formed by en- closing an arbitrary sequence of characters in double-quotes ("). A delimited identifier is always 8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and

8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and Date Input Example Description January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input mode 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) 1/8/1999 January 8 in MDY mode; August 1 in DMY mode error in YMD mode Jan-08-99 January 8, except error in YMD mode 19990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 1999.008 year and day of year J2451187 Julian

8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and Date Input Example Description January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input mode 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) 1/8/1999 January 8 in MDY mode; August 1 in DMY mode error in YMD mode Jan-08-99 January 8, except error in YMD mode 19990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 1999.008 year and day of year J2451187 Julian

8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and Date Input Example Description January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input mode 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) 1/8/1999 January 8 in MDY mode; August 1 in DMY mode error in YMD mode Jan-08-99 January 8, except error in YMD mode 19990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 1999.008 year and day of year J2451187 Julian

8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and Date Input Example Description January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input mode 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) 1/8/1999 January 8 in MDY mode; August 1 in DMY mode error in YMD mode Jan-08-99 January 8, except error in YMD mode 19990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 1999.008 year and day of year J2451187 Julian

8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of month, day, and Date Input Example Description January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input mode 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) 1/8/1999 January 8 in MDY mode; August 1 in DMY mode error in YMD mode Jan-08-99 January 8, except error in YMD mode 19990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 990108 ISO 8601; January 8, 1999 in any mode 1999.008 year and day of year J2451187 Julian

....................................................................................... 174 8.16. ISO 8601 Interval Unit Abbreviations ................................................................. 8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of day, month, and shows some possible inputs for the date type. Table 8.10. Date Input Example Description 1999-01-08 ISO 8601; January 8 in any mode (recommended format) January 8, 1999 unambiguous in any datestyle input

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....................................................................................... 149 8.16. ISO 8601 Interval Unit Abbreviations ................................................................. cumbersome.) The Unicode escape syntax works fully only when the server encoding is UTF8. When other server en- codings are used, only code points in the ASCII range (up to \u007F) can be specified. Both the 4-dig- 8.5.1. Date/Time Input Date and time input is accepted in almost any reasonable format, including ISO 8601, SQL-compatible, traditional POSTGRES, and others. For some formats, ordering of day, month, and

Conventions ...................................................................................... 156 8.16. ISO 8601 Interval Unit Abbreviations ................................................................. myview; Making liberal use of views is a key aspect of good SQL database design. Views allow you to en- capsulate the details of the structure of your tables, which might change as your application evolves it twice. The Unicode escape syntax works only when the server encoding is UTF8. When other server en- codings are used, only code points in the ASCII range (up to \007F) can be specified. Both the 4-