#663 - Change Postgres default Timestamp type to be "Timestamp with time zone"

src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/DatabasePlatform.java

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.sql.Types;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
  * Database platform specific settings.
@@ -175,6 +176,10 @@ public class DatabasePlatform {
   public DatabasePlatform() {
   }
 
+  public void configure(Properties properties) {
+    // by default do nothing
+  }
+
   /**
    * Return the name of the DatabasePlatform.
    * <p>

src/main/java/com/avaje/ebean/config/dbplatform/PostgresPlatform.java

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import com.avaje.ebean.dbmigration.ddlgeneration.platform.PostgresDdl;
 
 import javax.sql.DataSource;
 import java.sql.Types;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
  * Postgres v9 specific platform.
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ public class PostgresPlatform extends DatabasePlatform {
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.DOUBLE, new DbType("float"));
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.TINYINT, new DbType("smallint"));
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.DECIMAL, new DbType("decimal", 38));
+    dbTypeMap.put(Types.TIMESTAMP, new DbType("timestamptz"));
 
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.BINARY, dbBytea);
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.VARBINARY, dbBytea);
@@ -58,7 +60,16 @@ public class PostgresPlatform extends DatabasePlatform {
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.CLOB, dbTypeText);
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.LONGVARBINARY, dbBytea);
     dbTypeMap.put(Types.LONGVARCHAR, dbTypeText);
+  }
 
+  @Override
+  public void configure(Properties properties) {
+    super.configure(properties);
+    String tsType = properties.getProperty("ebean.postgres.timestamp");
+    if (tsType != null) {
+      // set timestamp type to "timestamp" without time zone
+      dbTypeMap.put(Types.TIMESTAMP, new DbType(tsType));
+    }
   }
 
   /**

src/main/java/com/avaje/ebeaninternal/server/core/DefaultContainer.java

@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ public class DefaultContainer implements SpiContainer {
     if (dbPlatform == null) {
       DatabasePlatformFactory factory = new DatabasePlatformFactory();
       DatabasePlatform db = factory.create(config);
+      db.configure(config.getProperties());
       config.setDatabasePlatform(db);
       logger.info("DatabasePlatform name:" + config.getName() + " platform:" + db.getName());
     }