| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(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 17:17:44 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmobCu-tQzyqehaQbZmzHsKoMaK2jOrn29+g3DatSXtDogQ@mail.gmail.com |
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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.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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