| From: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Add generate_series(date,date) and generate_series(date,date,integer) |
| Date: | 2016-03-17 17:22:25 |
| Message-ID: | 56EAE7D1.2040402@pgmasters.net |
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On 3/17/16 1:17 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> One idea that might be worth considering is to define the function
>> as generate_series(date,date,interval) returns timestamp (without
>> time zone). The point here would be only to move the behavior for
>> date inputs as far as getting timestamp without tz rather than
>> timestamp with tz; which would at least save some timezone rotations
>> in typical use, as well as rather debatable semantics. (The fact
>> that timestamptz is the preferred type in this hierarchy isn't
>> really doing us any favors here.)
>
> That's a fairly tenuous benefit, though, and a substantially different
> patch. I think it's time to give up here and move on. We can revisit
> this for another release after we've had more time to think about it,
> if that seems like a smart thing to do when the time comes.
This has been marked "returned with feedback".
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-David
david(at)pgmasters(dot)net
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