Re: Win32 timezone matching

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)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.

> I would consider the failure to make sense of the registry on windows or
> failure to figure timezone information out a more serious issue than a
> mere "WARNING" because depending on how you look at the issue it might
> actually cause silent data corruption.

Somehow, if you're running a database on windoze, I doubt your data
integrity standards are that high. In any case I'd rather get a bleat
about "why is the server running in GMT" than "my database won't start".
The former will be a lot easier to narrow down.

regards, tom lane