Re: Effecient time ranges in 9.4/9.5? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Effecient time ranges in 9.4/9.5?
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Msg-id 20151012174314.GA4821@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Effecient time ranges in 9.4/9.5?  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:14:10PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:

> On 10/4/15 6:18 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >    check whether both TZs are equal,
> >    if so
> >        ignore them
> >    else
> >        convert both operands to UTC,
> >    do "time - time",
> >    return result AT TIME ZONE UTC,
> >    document that UTC is returned,
> >
> >such that the user can know to apply "AT TIME ZONE ..."
> >to the result as needed.
>
> The problem there is you can't reliably convert a time to a different
> timezone without knowing what date you're talking about.

I didn't realize we were talking time only. My reading of the
thread suggested we were handling timestamps.

Karsten
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