Re: Is timestamptz alias documented?

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar dic 07 15:35:53 -0300 2010:
>> Chris <ctlajoie(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
>> > Is this a new alias, or
>> > has it been around for some time?
>>
>> It's been around since the '90s I'm sure, maybe even back to Berkeley days.
>
> It appeared later; "timestamp" was the alias for "timestamp with time
> zone" previously.  But this was against the SQL standard so the new
> alias was introduced as a backwards incompatible change.  There are no
> hits for a "grep -r timestamptz src/backend" in 7.1, but they are there
> in 7.2.  2002 or so, then.

I think it'd be helpful to make brief mention of this in the section
on "Date/Time Types", perhaps along the lines of the attached patch.

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