Re: 'NOW' in UTC with no timezone

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Tom Lane wrote:
| Stuart Bishop <stuart(at)stuartbishop(dot)net> writes:
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|>How much overhead is there in storing a timestamp with timezone as
|>opposed to one without?
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| Exactly zero. You have a misconception about what the datatype really
| does --- see other responses in this thread.

Indeed - I was under the impression that the timezone would be preserved
(which is the case in the external datetime libraries I use), but I now
see that PostgreSQL will lose this information.

- --
Stuart Bishop <stuart(at)stuartbishop(dot)net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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