On 18 December 2017 at 18:43, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> All of the timestamps in our system represent an instant in time, not
> a clock date/time, so timestamp with time zone is more appropriate.
> All of the data that is currently on disk in timestamp columns was
> inserted in a db session in UTC, and represents that timestamp in
> UTC.
Are you aware of the fact that "timestamp with time zone" does NOT actually store the time zone?
Yes.
A timestamptz stores everything as UTC and the value is converted to the session time zone upon retrieval.
Which is exactly what we want.
