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From: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add support for AT LOCAL
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 04:24:55 -0400
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On 6/6/23 03:56, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 23:13 -0400, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> The Standard defines time zone conversion as follows:
>>
>> <datetime factor> ::=
>>     <datetime primary> [ <time zone> ]
>>
>> <time zone> ::=
>>     AT <time zone specifier>
>>
>> <time zone specifier> ::=
>>       LOCAL
>>     | TIME ZONE <interval primary>
>>
>>
>> While looking at something else, I noticed we do not support AT LOCAL.
>> The local time zone is defined as that of *the session*, not the server,
>> which can make this quite interesting in views where the view will
>> automatically adjust to the session's time zone.
>>
>> Patch against 3f1aaaa180 attached.
> 
> +1 on the idea; it should be faily trivial, if not very useful.

Thanks.

> At a quick glance, it looks like you resolve "timezone" at the time
> the query is parsed.  Shouldn't the resolution happen at query
> execution time?

current_setting(text) is stable, and my tests show that it is calculated 
at execution time.


postgres=# prepare x as values (now() at local);
PREPARE
postgres=# set timezone to 'UTC';
SET
postgres=# execute x;
           column1
----------------------------
  2023-06-06 08:23:02.088634
(1 row)

postgres=# set timezone to 'Asia/Pyongyang';
SET
postgres=# execute x;
           column1
----------------------------
  2023-06-06 17:23:14.837219
(1 row)


Am I missing something?
-- 
Vik Fearing

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