Tom Lane wrote:
> Marc Munro <marc(at)bloodnok(dot)com> writes:
> > It makes no sense to me that by storing the date with the time you
> > can save 4 bytes.
>
> Actually, your mistake is in imagining that timestamptz represents the
> timezone explicitly ... it doesn't. If it did, it'd be at least as
> large as timetz.
Hmm, so timetz does that? Amazing ... I didn't know that.
Which means that storing date + timetz in two separate columns is not
quite the same as storing a timestamptz. Oops.
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