Re: Add support for AT LOCAL

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>, cary huang <hcary328@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-16T07:29:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 11:05:10PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 01:54:23AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ugh.  So if the failure is robust enough to persist across
>> several major xlc versions, why couldn't Thomas reproduce it?
> 
> Beats me.  hornet wipes its starting environment down to OBJECT_MODE=32_64
> PERL5LIB=/home/nm/sw/cpan64/lib/perl5 SPECIES=xlc64 PATH=/usr/bin, then
> applies all the environment settings seen in buildfarm logs.

Perhaps that's a stupid question..  But a server running under this
environment fails the two following queries even for older branches,
right?
select timezone('UTC', '23:59:59.99-07'::timetz);
select timezone('UTC', '23:59:00-07'::timetz);
--
Michael

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.