Re: date_trunc() in a specific time zone

David Fetter <david@fetter.org>

From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-11-04T20:35:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:18:23PM +0100, Vik Fearing wrote:
> A use case that I see quite a lot of is needing to do reports and other
> calculations on data per day/hour/etc but in the user's time zone.  The
> way to do that is fairly trivial, but it's not obvious what it does so
> reading queries becomes just a little bit more difficult.
> 
> Attached is a patch to create a function for it, based off 5953c99697.

+1

In a slightly related matter, at some point, we also need to come up
with a timestamptz2 or some such which preserves the input time zone.

Best,
David.
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Commits

  1. Add a timezone-specific variant of date_trunc().