On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:25:22PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:18:04PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > BTW, if you wanted a more integrated solution, you could build a custom > > type that would store the timestamp info. There's a good chance such > > code would end up being what's used in the server as the official type, > > too. > > Well, I wrote a module for storing arbitrary tags with base types. One > of the uses would be for a timestamp that remembers the timezone. I > havn't received all that much feedback on it which leads me to conclude > timestamps-remebering-timezones are not a heavily requested feature. > It's probably on the same level as the ENUM suggested a while ago. > Interesting, but not enough to get it included into core. > > http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/taggedtypes.html > > That said, I'd love for a variation of this to be included since I > beleive it has a lot of applications not thought of yet. If user-types > could define their own typmod values, that'd make it complete. Wow, that's damn cool and useful. You should put it on pgFoundry (at least as a project that links back to your site) so people can find it there. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
