Re: patch: make_timestamp function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 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.
>

+1. And if you want a different timezone you can just set the 'timezone' GUC.

Regards,

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