Re: Calculating the difference between timetz values

Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Jul 27, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>> I don't have a solution, but am curious what your use case is for
>> timetz (as opposed to timestamptz).

> I'm writing a custom trigger function that has to compare values of
> time* types and make some actions depending on a result.

It's still fairly unclear why you think that comparing timetz values
is a useful activity. Is "23:32" earlier or later than "00:32"?
How can you tell whether it's the same day or different days? Adding
timezones into that doesn't make it better.

Our documentation deprecates timetz as a poorly-defined datatype,
and I've never seen a reason to argue with that judgment. I'd suggest
taking a very hard look at why you're not using timestamptz instead.

regards, tom lane