pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting

From: "Rommel the iCeMAn" <icecrew(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "PostgreSQL Admin" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting
Date: 2008-03-17 14:25:16
Message-ID: 015801c8883a$c1456390$43d02ab0$@com
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Hi List,

I'm experiencing strange behavior in pgAdmin. I recently noticed that my
PostgreSQL reports a different time to the OS. I checked the time zone
setting and realized it was set to 'Canada/Atlantic'. I tried using
pgAdmin's Backend Configuration Editor to change the time zone in
postgresql.conf to 'America/Barbados' but when I try to save the file,
pgAdmin crashes. The server log has the following entries:

2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT LOG: database system was shut down at 2008-03-15
14:58:02 ADT
2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT FATAL: the database system is starting up
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG: autovacuum launcher started
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:31:04 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:31:39 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:32:01 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:33:06 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:08:47 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:08:52 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:08:56 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:10:02 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:10:25 ADT LOG: loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"

I tried manually editing the postgresql.conf file in Notepad but when I
reload PostgreSQL it ignores the entry in the config file and defaults to
'Canada/Atlantic' time zone. I am using pgAdmin3 v1.8.2.99 and Postgresql
8.3.0. I am able to reproduce this error with PostgreSQL 8.3.0 running on
Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows 2003 SP1. Am I doing something
incorrectly? How do I correctly set the time zone?

Thanks,
Rommel Edwards
Barbados, Caribbean.

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