Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 12 December 2013 11:05, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >>> My suggestion would be to add the TZ to the checkpoint record. This >>> way all users of WAL can see the TZ of the master and act accordingly. >>> I'll do a separate patch for that.
>> Intuitively I'd say that might be useful - but I am not reall sure what >> for. And we don't exactly have a great interface for looking at a >> checkpoint's data. Maybe add it to the control file instead? > That's actually what I had in mind, I just phrased it badly in mid-thought. I don't think you realize what a can of worms that would be. There's no compact representation of "a timezone", unless you are only proposing to store the UTC offset; and frankly I'm not particularly seeing the point of that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers