Re: jsonpath: Inconsistency of timestamp_tz() Output

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 10:22 PM David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Jul 9, 2024, at 10:07, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
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> > So perhaps I had things reversed before. Maybe it’s actually doing the right then when it converts a timestamp to a timestamptz, but not when it the input contains an offset, as in your example.
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> To clarify, there’s an inconsistency in the output of timestamp_tz() depending on whether the input has an offset or not. With offset:
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> david=# select jsonb_path_query_tz('"2024-08-15 12:34:56-05"', '$.timestamp_tz()');
> jsonb_path_query_tz
> -----------------------------
> "2024-08-15T12:34:56-05:00"
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> And without:
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> david=# select jsonb_path_query_tz('"2024-08-15 12:34:56"', '$.timestamp_tz()');
> jsonb_path_query_tz
> -----------------------------
> "2024-08-15T16:34:56+00:00"
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> I suspect the latter is correct, given that the timestamptz type appears to be an int64, presumably always in UTC. I don’t understand where the first example stores the offset.

In JsonbValue.val.datatime, there is a tz field, I think that's where
the offset stored, it is 18000 in the first example

struct
{
Datum value;
Oid typid;
int32 typmod;
int tz; /* Numeric time zone, in seconds, for
* TimestampTz data type */
} datetime;

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> Best,
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> David
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