On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/02/2010 03:29 PM, raghavendra t wrote:
...Not sure what you are getting at. You are always connected to the server _through_ a client and you _tell_ the server your timezone preferences.
Suppose am at the server-end, how could i get the client-time. Its really troublesome when compared with the timezone column in a table.
As long as you are using timestamptz and as long as the client properly sets its preferred time-zone prior to issuing queries or gives fully-qualified timestamps with TZ, then you are fine.
Alternately, you can use (for libpq clients) the PGTZ environment variable.
Or you can set things on a per-user basis:
alter user foo set timezone to 'SOMETZ';
Or for things like web-apps where the client-side of the connection to the database is probably through a single database-user and the actual users are all over the place you can set up a table of user-preferences and set the timezone appropriately.
Cheers,
Steve
