Steve Crawford <scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote: > I have always considered "timestamp with time zone" to be a bad > description of that data type but it appears to be a carryover > from the specs. It is really a "point in time"
I agree. While what timestamptz implements is a very useful data type, I think it was a very unfortunate decision to implement that for the standard type name, instead of something more consistent with the spec. It seems very unlikely to change, though, because so much existing production code would break. :-( Understandably, people do tend to expect that saving something into a column defined as TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE will save a time zone with the timestamp, and in PostgreSQL it does not. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
