Re: The timezone oddities

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The timezone oddities
Date: 2014-02-04 20:21:52
Message-ID: 20140204202152.GP10723@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Sergey Konoplev escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Gentoo Linux, PostgreSQL 9.2.4.
>
> I'm trying to find out why postgres uses a specific time zone that I
> don't expect to be used, and without any success so far. The situation
> seems strange to me, but I could probably miss something.

As far as I know, GMT is the fallback if no timezone is configured. In
9.2 there's no longer a scan at postmaster start for a timezone matching
the system's; if you don't have a value set in postgresql.conf by
initdb, it will start as GMT. This is a change from 9.1 behavior.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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