On 3/10/24 05:12, sud wrote:
'2024-03-07 00:00:00+00' and '2024-03-06 19:00:00-05' are the same time
as is '2024-03-07 00:00:00-05' and '2024-03-07 05:00:00+00'.
Still I would think for sanity sake you would want to stick with UTC.
Thank you so much Adrian.
In my example in the first post, I see, if someone connected to a RDS
Postgres database and run the create partition command using pg_partman
by setting the timezone as "UTC", the 7th march partition looks to be
spanned from "7th march midnight" to "8th march midnight", when queried
the partition_experession from the data dictionary view. Which is correct.
And same information if someone querying by setting the timezone as EST
is showing spanning from "6th march 7PM" to "7th March 7PM". And this
can cause sometimes the partition may shift to other days all together.
Similar differences happen if creating the partitions using EST timezone
initially and then querying the data dictionary from UTC timezone.
The above is at odds with your example below which has the correct values:
2024-03-07 00:00:00+00 = 2024-03-06 19:00:00-05
So my question was, if in these types of scenarios, we should follow a
standard approach of setting the timezone as UTC in such a type of
global user use case, while the system can persist data from multiple
users sitting across different time zones? So that the boundary(start
and end time) of each of the range partitions will be set as consistent
in one timezone across all the partitioned tables?
You need to first determine what your time frames are going to be?
1) Midnight to Midnight in UTC will be consistent when viewed in UTC. It
will not be when viewed in other time zone +/- the offset from UTC.
2) Or Midnight to Midnight in the users time zone, in which case the UTC
values will differ.
You have to decide which of the above is your goal. The bottom line is
by definition the local wall clock time will not equal UTC, GMT
excepted. This comes down to what the purpose of the partitions are? In
other words how do you want to organize the data?
And even while inserting the data , should we set the timezone to first
UTC and do the data load ?
******* Partition created by pg_partman by setting timezone as UTC
***************
*UTC*
*Partition_name Partition_expression*
test_timestamp_p2024_03_07 FOR VALUES FROM ('2024-03-07 00:00:00+00') TO
('2024-03-08 00:00:00+00')
when queried the partition_expression using EST ..
*EST*
*Partition_name Partition_expression*
test_timestamp_p2024_03_07 FOR VALUES FROM ('2024-03-06 19:00:00-05') TO
('2024-03-07 19:00:00-05')
******* Partition created by pg_partman by setting timezone as EST
***************
*EST*
*Partition_name Partition_expression*
test_timestamp2_p2024_03_07 FOR VALUES FROM ('2024-03-07 00:00:00-05')
TO ('2024-03-08 00:00:00-05')
when queried the partition_expression using UTC ..
*UTC*
*Partition_name Partition_expression*
test_timestamp2_p2024_03_07 FOR VALUES FROM ('2024-03-07 05:00:00+00')
TO ('2024-03-08 05:00:00+00')
*******
Also i see both the "setting" and "reset_val" is showing as local
timezone only. If we set the timezone to a different value than the
local timezone then it gets updated on the "setting".
Regards
Sud
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Adrian Klaver
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