On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes: > > I think the goal of the "make_date/time/timestamp" function series is build > > a date/time/timestamp from scratch, so the use of 'make_timestamptz' is to > > build a specific timestamp with timezone and don't convert it. > > Yeah; we don't really want to incur an extra timezone rotation just to get > to a timestamptz. However, it's not clear to me if make_timestamptz() > needs to have an explicit zone parameter or not. It could just assume > that you meant the active timezone. >
+1. And if you want a different timezone you can just set the 'timezone' GUC.
Regards,
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