Re: storing TZ along timestamps

On Jul 19, 2011, at 4:20 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
>> I am strongly in favor of having a *timezone* data type and some system
>> whereby we can uniquely identify timezones in the Zic database.
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION is_timezone(
>    tz CITEXT
> ) RETURNS BOOLEAN LANGUAGE plpgsql STABLE AS $$
...
> CREATE DOMAIN timezone AS CITEXT CHECK ( is_timezone( VALUE ) );

Storing giant globs of text with every timestamp field is really ugly.
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