Re: TIMESTAMP WITH( OUT)? TIME ZONE indexing/type choice... - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:34:26AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is anybody interested in the idea of a GUC parameter to choose whether
> "timestamp" means "timestamp with time zone" (useful) or "timestamp
> without time zone" (anally spec-compliant)?  Or would that just muddy
> the waters even more than they are already?  We already changed the
> meaning once...

Well, if you added the GUC and made the default the (silly, I agree)
SQL-spec behaviour, then those who care about this sort of thing will
be able to put it back the way they want.

A

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