Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is time with timezone 12 bytes?
Date: 2010-09-23 01:00:19
Message-ID: 17401.1285203619@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Technically, there's no reason why we can't do this for 9.1. What we
> can do is change the name of the "time with timezone" type to
> something like "oldtimetz", keeping the current OID. And then we can
> add a new type called "time with timezone". [ with large amounts of
> consequent work ]

I think you missed the point of my response, which is that there are
easily 10^6 more-pressing things to work on than the size of timetz.
Do you know of any actual use cases for it?

regards, tom lane

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