On 12/13/2013 02:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think the goal of the "make_date/time/timestamp" function series is build
>> a date/time/timestamp from scratch, so the use of 'make_timestamptz' is to
>> build a specific timestamp with timezone and don't convert it.
> Yeah; we don't really want to incur an extra timezone rotation just to get
> to a timestamptz. However, it's not clear to me if make_timestamptz()
> needs to have an explicit zone parameter or not. It could just assume
> that you meant the active timezone.
>
>
Why not overload the function, with one version having the explicit TZ
param?
cheers
andrew
