Re: Australian timezone configure option

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 11:53:59PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 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 new version of the patch.  Tom added callbacks to GUC boolean
variables so I was able to make a separate Australian lookup table and
clear the cache if anyone changes the setting.

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