| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: patch: make_timestamp function |
| Date: | 2013-12-13 19:35:14 |
| Message-ID: | 574.1386963314@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabr=EDzio_de_Royes_Mello?= <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think the goal of the "make_date/time/timestamp" function series is build
> a date/time/timestamp from scratch, so the use of 'make_timestamptz' is to
> build a specific timestamp with timezone and don't convert it.
Yeah; we don't really want to incur an extra timezone rotation just to get
to a timestamptz. However, it's not clear to me if make_timestamptz()
needs to have an explicit zone parameter or not. It could just assume
that you meant the active timezone.
regards, tom lane
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