Re: Mapping of timestamptz to TIMESTAMP vs. TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE

Probably should be. Care to provide a Pull Request ?
Dave Cramer
www.postgres.rocks

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 20:19, Ben Horowitz <bhorowit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this is a duplicate of an answered question. I searched in
> the mailing list archives, Stack Overflow, etc., and didn't find anything.
>
> At the line linked below in TypeInfoCache, it appears that
> type timestamptz is getting mapped to the type java.sql.Types.TIMESTAMP [1]
> . It seems like it should be mapped to
> java.sql.Types.TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE.
>
> TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE was introduced in Java 8 (2014). Is the mapping of
> timestamptz to TIMESTAMP intentional for reasons of backwards compatibility?
>
> I found the behavior surprising, and also found a question on Stack
> Overflow where someone else was surprised [2].
>
> Thanks very much,
> Ben
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/65f158ed8e06ffea77ca7f3b8413847817a7831f/pgjdbc/src/main/java/org/postgresql/jdbc/TypeInfoCache.java#L106
>
> [2]
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60451102/for-postgresql-resultsetmetadata-getcolumntype-function-returns-same-value-ty
>