From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: Why extract( ... from timestamp ) is not immutable? |
Date: | 2012-01-25 15:44:14 |
Message-ID: | 201201250744.15234.adrian.klaver@gmail.com |
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On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:37:27 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:35:47AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> writes:
> > > Why aren't the 3rd date_parts the same in both cases? I mean - I see
> > > that they are adjusted due to timezone, but why is it happening?
> >
> > Given a timestamp without time zone, timestamp_part('epoch') assumes
> > that it is in session timezone, and rotates it back to UTC so as to
> > satisfy the expectation that epoch values start from zero at midnight
> > UTC. In short, the calculation you're showing does the zone correction
> > an extra time. Don't do that.
>
> ok.
> how can I then have immutable epoch for given point in time?
>
> I thought that this is what I will achieve with extract(epoch from now()
> at time zone 'UTC') but clearly it doesn't work.
> So what options do I have?
Isn't extract(epoch from now()) getting what you want?
>
> Best regards,
>
> depesz
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Adrian Klaver
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