Re: Content for talk on Postgres Type System at PostgresConf

From: grimy(dot)outshine830(at)aceecat(dot)org
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Content for talk on Postgres Type System at PostgresConf
Date: 2024-02-29 18:39:26
Message-ID: usrwn72o6n3x54ybzodq6m2tgv5hihp7zxx2k4lwrdvc3ca6az@42valkaxs35t
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:11:03AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:

> It might be good to explain how "timestamp with time zone" works.
> That's often confusing for beginners, because it is different from
> other databases and arguably deviates from the SQL standard.

The most confusing part is the name :-P

It is natural for a beginner -- and I am not that far from being a
beginner -- to assume a data type with this name must store a time
zone somehow.

--
Ian

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message normandavis1990 2024-02-29 19:13:45 High Availability and Replication
Previous Message Or Cohen 2024-02-29 16:40:18 FW: SUSE repositories not longer available