On 03/10/11 19:01, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Excerpts from sad's message of mié mar 02 10:23:53 -0300 2011:
>>> On Mar 2 2011, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>>>> 3. To make TIMESTAMPTZ useful by introducing proper type cast
>>>>> TIMESTAMPTZ to TIMESTAMP
>>>>
>>>> Why are you using Timestamp-no-tz at all?  I was thinking we should
>>>> change the default ...
>>>
>>> Why did u introduced it?
>>
>> The standard requires the current behavior.  It's not going to change.
>> It changed in 7.1 or so.
> 
> And we document why the default is so odd:
> 
> 	http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
> 	
> 	Note: The SQL standard requires that writing just timestamp be
> 	equivalent to timestamp without time zone, and PostgreSQL honors that
> 	behavior. (Releases prior to 7.3 treated it as timestamp with time
> 	zone.) 

do you document why 'epoch'::timestamp is not the true 'epoch' unless
timezone is not GMT?

if you mention any timestamp except 'epoch' it will be interpreted
correctly taking in account timezone setting.

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