Re: Win32 timezone matching

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
>>>
>>> hmm all that code makes me wonder a bit about a more general issue - is
>>> the "fallback to GMT if we fail to actually make sense of the right imezone
>>> to use" actually a good idea?
>>
>> What alternative are you proposing?  Failing to start the server doesn't
>> seem like an attractive choice.
>
> why not? we do error out in a lot of other cases as well... Personally I
> find a hard and clear "something is wrong please fix" much more convinient
> than defaulting to something that is more or less completely arbitrary but
> well...

While I can understand why someone might want that behavior in some
cases, in other cases it might be a severe overreaction.

...Robert