Re: Re: Add generate_series(date,date) and generate_series(date,date,integer)

On 3/17/16 1:17 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> One idea that might be worth considering is to define the function
>> as generate_series(date,date,interval) returns timestamp (without
>> time zone).  The point here would be only to move the behavior for
>> date inputs as far as getting timestamp without tz rather than
>> timestamp with tz; which would at least save some timezone rotations
>> in typical use, as well as rather debatable semantics.  (The fact
>> that timestamptz is the preferred type in this hierarchy isn't
>> really doing us any favors here.)
> 
> That's a fairly tenuous benefit, though, and a substantially different
> patch.  I think it's time to give up here and move on.  We can revisit
> this for another release after we've had more time to think about it,
> if that seems like a smart thing to do when the time comes.

This has been marked "returned with feedback".

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-David
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