From: | Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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 19:49:48 |
Message-ID: | CAFcNs+qdibWZLZEYGdgNnDpxGVa2Jt0F_CxRNxkkiAa_6cSAEA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> =?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.
>
+1. And if you want a different timezone you can just set the 'timezone'
GUC.
Regards,
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