Re: Australian timezone configure option

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:16:51PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.

With the new Australian timezone patch requiring Tom's callback patch
we're diverging more and more from the standard 7.1.2 code base, so for
my own 7.1.2 systems I'm going to revert to my original 'configure'
patch.

Thanks for your efforts on this (and everything else of course), and
looking forward to the 7.2 code!

Cheers,

Chris,
OnTheNet