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Re: Add support for AT LOCAL

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, cary huang <hcary328@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-16T03:07:20Z
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 4:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm having a hard time not believing that this is a compiler bug.
> Looking back at 8d2a01ae12cd and its speculation that xlc is overly
> liberal about reordering code around sequence points ... I wonder
> if it'd help to do this calculation in a local variable, and only
> assign the final value to result->time ?  But we have to reproduce
> the problem first.

If that can be shown I would vote for switching to /opt/IBM/xlc/16.1.0
and not changing a single bit of PostgreSQL.

Commits

  1. Dodge a compiler bug affecting timetz_zone/timetz_izone.

  2. Back-patch test cases for timetz_zone/timetz_izone.

  3. Add regression test coverage for timetz_izone().

  4. Add support for AT LOCAL

  5. doc: Mention timezone(zone, time) in section for AT TIME ZONE

  6. Use HASH_BLOBS for xidhash.