Re: Why data of timestamptz does not store value of timezone passed to it?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Grittner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> It was actually rather disappointing to hear that we had a
> conforming implementation and changed away from it circa the 7.2
> release; and even more disturbing to hear that decision is still
> being defended on the grounds that there's no point providing
> standard conforming behavior if we can think of different behavior
> that we feel is more useful.  We should have both.

I don't think the behaviour was standards-compliant in 7.2 either. For
that matter, I can't think of any circumstance where the standard
behaviour is useful. There's absolutely no way to write correct code
using it.