Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a fit of early morning, pre-coffee thoughts, I'm thinking this might be > just what I've been looking for. In one of my apps we take calls from around > the country for customers and store the time that call came in. Unfortunately > we need to know things like how many calls did we take in an hour across > customers, but also how many calls did we take at 6AM local time to the > customer. The way PostgreSQL works now, you have to store some extra bits > of info in another column and then reassemble it to be able to determine > those two queries, but it sounds like your timestampstdtz would allow that > information to be stored together, as it should be.
As far as I can tell, Dennis is planning slavish adherence to the spec, which will mean that the datatype is unable to cope effectively with daylight-savings issues. So I'm unconvinced that it will be very helpful to you for remembering local time in addition to true (universal) time. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly