Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 12:22:38PM -0500, Randall Nortman wrote:
>
> Anyway, afaik, Postgres does not store the "original" timezone
> anywhere, and so could not possibly retrieve it.  I think the only
> physical difference between the "timestamp" and "timestamp with time
> zone" types is in the system catalog; the manual states that both of
> them store 8 bytes and have the same range.  If "timestamp with time
> zone" were storing anything extra, I would think the storage size
> would be greater or else the range smaller.
Am I correct to assume that this could be solved with a user
defined composite data type ? From the docs it so seems.

Karsten
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