On 6-7-2019 15:14, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
On 06/07/2019 06:16, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
1. The minimal thing that can and should be done to address the problem
that kicked off this email thread, is to ensure that `decodeTimestampTz`
has a fallback if ICU is not available to render named zones properly
(that is: render the time as UTC or +00:00 which is 1) possible with the
current information available and 2) an acceptable fallback).
The fallback is there already: caller can detect problem and do what he
wants.
Automatically change something that may be re-entered as input and saved
to the DB in a different way is very problematic and should not be done.
I don't find that acceptable. Graceful degradation in
`decodeTimestampTz` improves the user experience for normal users of
ISQL over having to find obscure reasons why ISQL without a ICU install
won't work.
Mark
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