| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: About the MONEY type |
| Date: | 2016-12-17 23:25:56 |
| Message-ID: | 20161217232556.GA19811@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 01:35:12PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> note, btw, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE doesn't actually store the timezone...
> rather, it converts it to an internal representation of GMT, and then converts
> it back to display time at the client's current (or specified) time zone.
Right, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE converts the timestamp value to the
local time zone on output. Imagine a monetary type that converted the
money amount to local currency on output --- that would be cool.
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