Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 01/03/2018 01:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I had not known this before, but according to the page I'm
>> looking at
>> https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements004.htm#SQLRF00212
>> Oracle also supports "TZD" to mean a time zone abbreviation (their
>> example is "PDT") and "TZR" to mean a time zone name (their example
>> is "US/Pacific", so yes they mean the IANA zone names). Those seem
>> remarkably useful, so I'm surprised we've not added support for them.
> I also agree that TZD and TZR would be very useful, but perhaps they
> could be done in a separate patch.
Yes, of course, I did not mean to imply that this patch needs to include
them. I was just surprised because I'd always believed there was no such
facility in Oracle. I wonder how long ago they added those ...
regards, tom lane
