BUG #17366: Error result returned in timestamp2timestamptz, expected to be off by one hour
The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 17366
Logged by: Error result returned in timestamp2timestamptz, expected to be off by one
hour
Email address: dafoer_x@163.com
PostgreSQL version: 14.1
Operating system: REL_14_STABLE
Description:
For REL_14_STABLE
git log ad5b6f248ab288c3252d8122d12a1eb410d4a0b6
e.g.
postgres=# set timezone to "PST8PDT";
SET
postgres=# select * from pg_timezone_names where name = 'PST8PDT';
name | abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst
---------+--------+------------+--------
PST8PDT | PST | -08:00:00 | f
(1 row)
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 02:00:00')::timestamptz;
timestamptz
------------------------
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
(1 row)
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 03:00:00')::timestamptz;
timestamptz
------------------------
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
(1 row)
expected:
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 02:00:00')::timestamptz;
2021-03-14 02:00:00-07
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 11:15, PG Bug reporting form
<noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
Logged by: Error result returned in timestamp2timestamptz, expected to be off by one
...
postgres=# set timezone to "PST8PDT";
..
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 02:00:00')::timestamptz;
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 03:00:00')::timestamptz;
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
You are playing around the DST changes, and timestamp must have unique
representations, for informal descriptions "time jumps from 2 to 3" is
fine, when dealing with real data you must decide if it jumps just
before or just after, it seems your expectations are wrong:
=> show time zone;
TimeZone
----------
PST8PDT
(1 row)
=> with a(hms) as (values
('01:59:59'),('02:00:00'),('02:00:01'),('02:59:59'),('03:00:00'),('03:00:01'))
, b as (select '2021-03-14 '||hms as f from a)
select f, f::timestamp, (f::timestamp)::timestamptz from b;
f | f | f
---------------------+---------------------+------------------------
2021-03-14 01:59:59 | 2021-03-14 01:59:59 | 2021-03-14 01:59:59-08
2021-03-14 02:00:00 | 2021-03-14 02:00:00 | 2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
2021-03-14 02:00:01 | 2021-03-14 02:00:01 | 2021-03-14 03:00:01-07
2021-03-14 02:59:59 | 2021-03-14 02:59:59 | 2021-03-14 03:59:59-07
2021-03-14 03:00:00 | 2021-03-14 03:00:00 | 2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
2021-03-14 03:00:01 | 2021-03-14 03:00:01 | 2021-03-14 03:00:01-07
(6 rows)
Local values do not exist in the (2-3) interval, so they are shifted,
but to cover the timestamp line without overlapping you need half-open
intervals, pg is choosing to use rigth-open, so 2:00 does not exist
but 3:00 does, they cannot both exist ( as normalized output, as input
both are valid, but internally they are stored the same way, time
jumps, pg has to choose a coherent offset to print them ).
Francisco Olarte.
Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com> writes:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 11:15, PG Bug reporting form
<noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:postgres=# set timezone to "PST8PDT";
..
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 02:00:00')::timestamptz;
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
postgres=# select (timestamp '2021-03-14 03:00:00')::timestamptz;
2021-03-14 03:00:00-07
You are playing around the DST changes, and timestamp must have unique
representations, for informal descriptions "time jumps from 2 to 3" is
fine, when dealing with real data you must decide if it jumps just
before or just after, it seems your expectations are wrong:
Yeah. See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/datetime-invalid-input.html
(I'm pointing you to the devel version of that page because it
contains a correction that hasn't yet propagated into the other
versions)
regards, tom lane