Re: Timestamp with time zone: why not? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Timestamp with time zone: why not?
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Msg-id 4655D6E0.80405@g2switchworks.com
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In response to Timestamp with time zone: why not?  (km@acrasis.net)
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km@acrasis.net wrote:
> Would I be right in thinking that, in general, a column to hold
> timestamp values is best created with type 'TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE'
> and not 'TIMESTAMP' nor 'TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE'?
>
> To put it another way, for what reasons might the 'TIMESTAMP' type be
> preferred to 'TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE'?
>
We use the database to store one minute roll up stats from our main
application.  Each of these has a timestamp on it.

There's really no need for timestamptz in this instance.

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