On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 22:33 +0430, Majid Azimi wrote:
> postgresql documentation says:
>
> All timezone-aware dates and times are stored internally in
> UTC. They are converted to local time in the zone specified by
> the timezone configuration parameter before being displayed to
> the client.
>
>
> timezone parameter is a session parameter. When all TIMESTAMP WITH
> TIME ZONEs will be stored as UTC and the client connection will
> specify the session timezone, then what is the benefit of setting
> TimeZone parameter in postgresql.conf?
It's essentially just a default so that you don't have to specify it in
the session.
Regards,
Jeff Davis