| From: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, rohtodeveloper <rohtodeveloper(at)outlook(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alexey <alexk(at)hintbits(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Why data of timestamptz does not store value of timezone passed to it? |
| Date: | 2014-08-29 15:10:18 |
| Message-ID: | CAM-w4HPtRb3BOfgARVeD8ka1Li=Z7H6W8mBMP=a-P=EvM3wkmw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> It was actually rather disappointing to hear that we had a
> conforming implementation and changed away from it circa the 7.2
> release; and even more disturbing to hear that decision is still
> being defended on the grounds that there's no point providing
> standard conforming behavior if we can think of different behavior
> that we feel is more useful. We should have both.
I don't think the behaviour was standards-compliant in 7.2 either. For
that matter, I can't think of any circumstance where the standard
behaviour is useful. There's absolutely no way to write correct code
using it.
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greg
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