> template1=# select current_timestamp(0) at time zone 'Australia/Sydney'; > ERROR: Time zone 'australia/sydney' not recognized
The input is done using an internal lookup, not your system's time zone database. Much faster; setting time zone variables for every input will be substantially slower (though I haven't measured how much, it will involve opening files etc etc). > And also, why does the column name change from timestamptz to timezone? > Anyway, shouldn't it in fact be current_timestamp? The feature is implemented as a function call to timezone(), which returns a string. If it stayed a timestamp or something like that the time zone can not be "frozen" through the formatting/output process. - Thomas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])