Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of mar dic 07 15:35:53 -0300 2010:
> Chris <ctlajoie@gmail.com> writes:
> > Is this a new alias, or
> > has it been around for some time?
>
> It's been around since the '90s I'm sure, maybe even back to Berkeley days.
It appeared later; "timestamp" was the alias for "timestamp with time
zone" previously. But this was against the SQL standard so the new
alias was introduced as a backwards incompatible change. There are no
hits for a "grep -r timestamptz src/backend" in 7.1, but they are there
in 7.2. 2002 or so, then.
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