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Re: Timestamp weirdness


  • From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
  • To: "emergency(dot)shower(at)gmail(dot)com" <emergency(dot)shower(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Timestamp weirdness
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:12:22 +1200
  • Message-id: <42E58DF6.6040406@opencloud.com> <text/plain>

emergency(dot)shower(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:

> If I TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE is implemented on the server as a
> (timestamp, time zone)-pair

It's not, it's just a timestamp in UTC with no timezone stored.

> , the server should be able to cast
> TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE correctly to TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE as
> described in the SQL standard:
> 
> From TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE to TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE
>  TargetValue = SourceValue.UTC + SourceValue.TimeZone

I'd like to see this too, but Tom doesn't like it for
backwards-compatibility reasons.

-O



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