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Document timestamptz a little better.
authorRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:52:31 +0000 (20:52 -0500)
committerRobert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:53:40 +0000 (20:53 -0500)
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml

index 66aef156082b09ce28125c94ed248a536891b4ba..edb0384694dcd24b2310272a9e2390eb1e343fde 100644 (file)
@@ -1442,6 +1442,9 @@ SELECT E'\\xDEADBEEF';
    <indexterm zone="datatype-datetime">
     <primary>timestamp</primary>
    </indexterm>
+   <indexterm zone="datatype-datetime">
+    <primary>timestamptz</primary>
+   </indexterm>
    <indexterm zone="datatype-datetime">
     <primary>timestamp with time zone</primary>
    </indexterm>
@@ -1535,7 +1538,9 @@ SELECT E'\\xDEADBEEF';
      be equivalent to <type>timestamp without time
      zone</type>, and <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> honors that
      behavior.  (Releases prior to 7.3 treated it as <type>timestamp
-     with time zone</type>.)
+     with time zone</type>.)  <type>timestamptz</type> is taken as an
+     abbreviation for <type>timestamp with time zone</type>; this is a
+     <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> extension.
     </para>
    </note>