Re: Converting timestamp to timestamptz without rewriting tables

2017-12-18 Thread Corey Taylor
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Tom Dunstan wrote: > >> >> A timestamptz stores everything as UTC and the value is converted to the session time zone upon retrieval. > > > Which is exactly what we want. If a random person can interject here, I believe what Tom Dunstan is asking about here is the

Re: Converting timestamp to timestamptz without rewriting tables

2017-12-18 Thread Tom Dunstan
On 18 December 2017 at 18:43, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > > All of the timestamps in our system represent an instant in time, not > > a clock date/time, so timestamp with time zone is more appropriate. > > All of the data that is currently on disk in timestamp columns was > > inserted in a db sessio

Re: Converting timestamp to timestamptz without rewriting tables

2017-12-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Tom Dunstan schrieb am 18.12.2017 um 09:08: > We have generally been using timestamps without timezones in our > system. As both our app servers and db server were set to UTC it so > far hasn't been an issue. However, that may not always be the case, > so we want to tighten things up a bit. We are