Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Timezone List
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here goes. Tested only on win32 so far, but works there. No docs yet either - need to know if it goes in first ;) I've applied this along with some extra work to get it to show GMT offsets and DST status, which should be useful for helping people to choose which setting they want. This effectively obsoletes Table B-5 as well as B-4 in the SGML docs ... we should probably remove both of those in favor of recommending people look at the views. http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/view-pg-timezone-names.html says that the names in the view are recognized as argument to SET TIMEZONE. However some of them can still not be used if they contain leap seconds, try for example set timezone to 'Mideast/Riyadh87'; Should we just document that some can't be set or remove those from the view completely or add another boolean column has_leapsecs or similar? Removing them seems not to be the right idea because you can say: select now() at time zone 'Mideast/Riyadh87'; Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key available ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Timezone List
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I've applied this along with some extra work to get it to show GMT offsets and DST status, which should be useful for helping people to choose which setting they want. This effectively obsoletes Table B-5 as well as B-4 in the SGML docs ... we should probably remove both of those in favor of recommending people look at the views. I did the basic documentation work in catalogs.sgml for these views, but Appendix B still needs an update. Joachim, you were going to do that, right? Thats right. Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key available ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] Timezone List
Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming we can sneak this in even though it's feature-freeze, want me to look for it? Yeah, please take a look --- seeing the size of the code will probably help us decide if it's too late for 8.2 or not. Here goes. Tested only on win32 so far, but works there. No docs yet either - need to know if it goes in first ;) I've applied this along with some extra work to get it to show GMT offsets and DST status, which should be useful for helping people to choose which setting they want. This effectively obsoletes Table B-5 as well as B-4 in the SGML docs ... we should probably remove both of those in favor of recommending people look at the views. I did the basic documentation work in catalogs.sgml for these views, but Appendix B still needs an update. Joachim, you were going to do that, right? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
