> time zone either comes from the caller or the system default, never the database
As far as I can tell, DB does not send time zone when using binary
encoding (see [1]).
[1] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/d4355425831fe8f6a68095393e3628cb30d06b3f/src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c#L792-L807
>Is there an ETA for this?
Hopefully it will be in 2015.
Vladimir