From: Peter Faulks <faulksp@iinet.net.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: date arithmetic with columns
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:29:23 +1100
Message-ID: <4F535213.7070402@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hay4pump.fsf@hf.protecting.net>
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<87hay4pump.fsf@hf.protecting.net>
Good question.
I'm porting a (never actually finished) app from Firebird to Postgres.
Now that I've re-read how the timestamptz (which Firebird doesn't have)
actually works, I think I'll change the tables and get rid of the
timezone lookup.
Thanks
On 4/03/2012 8:45 PM, hari.fuchs@gmail.com wrote:
> Peter Faulks<faulksp@iinet.net.au> writes:
>
>> I have two columns in two distinct tables, one is the starting time of
>> an event, timestamp without time zone. Data is the utc datetime (for
>> sorting across time zones), the other is the number of minutes to add.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just use timestamp with
> timezone instead?
>
>
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