On 12/13/13 1:49 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us <mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote: > > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fabr=EDzio_de_Royes_Mello?= <fabriziome...@gmail.com <mailto:fabriziome...@gmail.com>> writes: > > I think the goal of the "make_date/time/timestamp" function series is build > > a date/time/timestamp from scratch, so the use of 'make_timestamptz' is to > > build a specific timestamp with timezone and don't convert it. > > Yeah; we don't really want to incur an extra timezone rotation just to get > to a timestamptz. However, it's not clear to me if make_timestamptz() > needs to have an explicit zone parameter or not. It could just assume > that you meant the active timezone. > +1. And if you want a different timezone you can just set the 'timezone' GUC.
Why wouldn't we have a version that optionally accepts the timezone? That mirrors what you can currently do with a cast from text, and having to set the GUC if you need a different TZ would be a real PITA. -- Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
