Re: date arithmetic with columns

Good question.

I'm porting a (never actually finished) app from Firebird to Postgres. 
Now that I've re-read how the timestamptz (which Firebird doesn't have) 
actually works, I think I'll change the tables and get rid of the 
timezone lookup.

Thanks

On 4/03/2012 8:45 PM, hari.fuchs@gmail.com wrote:
> Peter Faulks<faulksp@iinet.net.au>  writes:
>
>> I have two columns in two distinct tables, one is the starting time of
>> an event, timestamp without time zone. Data is the utc datetime (for
>> sorting across time zones), the other is the number of minutes to add.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just use timestamp with
> timezone instead?
>
>