On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 06:03:43PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/datatype-datetime.html
> Description:
>
> This statement in section 8.5.3 states
> "All timezone-aware dates and times are stored internally in UTC. They are
> converted to local time in the zone specified by the TimeZone configuration
> parameter before being displayed to the client."
> Is not correct for timetz
Uh, yes to the storage part, no to the output part. ;-) Postgres does
store the timetz time zone offset, but it doesn't adust it once it is
stored so doesn't adjust for the session time zone:
SHOW timezone;
TimeZone
------------------
America/New_York
CREATE TABLE test (x1 time, x2 timetz, x3 timestamp with time zone);
INSERT INTO test VALUES ('09:00:00', '09:00:00', '2023-09-07 09:00:00');
SELECT * FROM test;
x1 | x2 | x3
----------+-------------+------------------------
09:00:00 | 09:00:00-04 | 2023-09-07 09:00:00-04
SET TIMEZONE = 'Asia/Tokyo';
SELECT * FROM test;
x1 | x2 | x3
----------+-------------+------------------------
09:00:00 | 09:00:00-04 | 2023-09-07 22:00:00+09
-- -- --- -- ---
You can see it stored _internally_ here:
./src/include/utils/date.h
typedef int64 TimeADT;
typedef struct
{
TimeADT time; /* all time units other than months and
years */
int32 zone; /* numeric time zone, in seconds */
} TimeTzADT;
Do we want to document this?
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