Re: Australian timezone configure option

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-06-12T04:46:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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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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