Re: [GENERAL] recovery dump on database with different timezone

On 01/23/2017 05:14 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Adrian Klaver
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>wrote:
>
>
>     production=# show timezone;
>      TimeZone
>     ----------
>      UTC
>     (1 row)
>
>     production=# select ' 2011-01-01 00:00:03.925-06'::timestamptz  <
>     '2011-01-01'::date;
>      ?column?
>     ----------
>      f
>
>
> ​What Tom said - though I missed the part about "the timezone when the
> data was entered" - I was thinking it was only ​the timezone at the time
> of the dump that would impact things.
>
> To your example - testing in UTC is going to always result in failure
> for Z values <= 0 since they will all result in a UTC date of
> 2011-01-01.  Choosing +06 would result in a passed test.

That was sort of the point, I was just using the value that the OP said
worked:

"if change 2011-01-01 00:00:03.925+00 to 2011-01-01 00:00:03.925-06
works ok"

I could not see how it did.

>
> David J.
>


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