Re: storing TZ along timestamps

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: storing TZ along timestamps
Date: 2011-06-02 01:36:32
Message-ID: BANLkTikFbURqtP7-V4NJK7Rseq6kYL3=cQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Jeff Davis's message of mié jun 01 19:57:40 -0400 2011:
>> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 16:43 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > One of our customers is interested in being able to store original
>> > timezone along with a certain timestamp.
>>
>> I assume that you're talking about a new data type, not augmenting the
>> current types, correct?
>
> Yes

why not use a composite type for that? performance maybe?

merlin

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