From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: timezone GUC |
Date: | 2011-05-19 16:19:32 |
Message-ID: | 22284.1305821972@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> We could do that, but the issue that this code is trying to avoid is
>> that identify_system_timezone can easily add several seconds to the
>> postmaster startup time. So one of the reasons why someone would be
>> putting a timezone setting into postgresql.conf in the first place is
>> to not pay that startup overhead. I'm not thrilled with the idea
>> of defeating that in order to cover the corner case where they remove
>> the setting later.
> Yeah, I'm not thrilled with that either. However, I'm also not
> thrilled with the existing behavior. Consistency is the hobgoblin of
> small minds, and also mine.
What would make everybody happy is to find a way of identifying the
system timezone that isn't such a massive, expensive kluge. Any ideas?
regards, tom lane
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