Re: Australian timezone configure option

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Chris Dunlop <chris(at)onthe(dot)net(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Australian timezone configure option
Date: 2001-06-12 04:46:38
Message-ID: 200106120446.f5C4kci05730@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Being in Australia, it's always been a minor pain building the support
> > for Australian timezone rules by defining USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES to the
> > compiler. Not to mention the not inconsiderable pain involved in pawing
> > through the code and documentation trying to work out why the timezones
> > were wrong in the first place.
>
> OK, this patch makes Australian_timezones a GUC option. It can be set
> anytime in psql. The code uses a static variable to check if the GUC
> setting has changed and adjust the C struct accordingly. I have also
> added code to allow the regression tests to pass even if postgresql.conf
> has australian_timezones defined.

Here is a diff for the documentation.

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