Timestamps
Nikolay and Michael discuss timestamps and time math in Postgres — particularly around data type choice, functions available, and some things to watch out for.
Postgres FM · Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides
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Show Notes
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- Date/Time Types (docs)
- Don’t use timestamp without time zone (wiki)
- Date/Time functions and operators (docs)
- Postgres AT TIME ZONE explained (blog post by Bruce Momjian)
- Our episode on BRIN indexes
- RUM indexes
- allballs (mailing list thread)
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