Re: Surprise AT TIME ZONE behaviour (buglet?)?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org
Cc: Allan Engelhardt <allane(at)cybaea(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Surprise AT TIME ZONE behaviour (buglet?)?
Date: 2002-02-04 20:04:16
Message-ID: 11863.1012853056@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> writes:
>> 2. Is this really supposed to work? More precisely: can I count on it if future
>> releases? The documentation
>> (http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/sql-select.html) does not
>> mention it....

> Sure. Well, very likely anyway. AT TIME ZONE is defined in SQL9x, so we
> are likely to continue to support it.

I'd hardly expect the SELECT reference page to mention every possible
expression construct. I do find it documented in the place I'd expect
to look for it:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES

regards, tom lane

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