On 29/10/2018 16:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> writes:
>> Hm, I am not sure if I see any major win from writing
>> date_trunc('day', timestamptz '2001-02-16 20:38:40+00', 'Australia/Sydney')
>> instead of
>> date_trunc('day', timestamptz '2001-02-16 20:38:40+00' AT TIME ZONE
>> 'Australia/Sydney')
>
> The latter would give you timestamp without time zone, whereas I think
> what Vik wants is timestamp with time zone. Yeah, you could then convert
> it back with a second application of AT TIME ZONE 'Australia/Sydney',
> but that's both inefficient
Hmm, converting it back is exactly what my function does...
> and mighty confusing.
This is my justification for needing the patch.
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