Re: AT TIME ZONE with full timezones

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AT TIME ZONE with full timezones
Date: 2005-06-15 00:33:46
Message-ID: 200506150033.j5F0XkS18816@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch applied. Thanks. Doc updates applied too.

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> This patch makes it possible to use the full set of timezones when doing
> "AT TIME ZONE", and not just the shorlist previously available. For
> example:
>
> SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';
>
> works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in effect at
> just that date, which the previous implementation did not.
>
> It also supports the AT TIME ZONE on the timetz datatype. The whole
> handling of DST is a bit bogus there, so I chose to make it use whatever
> DST rules are in effect at the time of executig the query. not sure if
> anybody is actuallyi *using* timetz though, it seems pretty
> unpredictable just because of this...
>
> Docs updates forthcoming assuming this approach is considered good ;-)
>
> //Magnus

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