Re: Display of timestamp in pg_dump custom format

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Display of timestamp in pg_dump custom format
Date: 2014-05-01 00:33:51
Message-ID: 5361966F.5080200@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 01/05/14 12:04, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 08:27:49AM +1200, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> On 01/05/14 02:51, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> The table of contents for pg_restore -l shows the time the archive was
>>> made as local time (it uses ctime()):
>>>
>>> ; Archive created at Wed Apr 30 10:03:28 2014
>>>
>>> Is this clear enough that it is local time? Should we display this
>>> better, perhaps with a time zone designation?
>>>
>> I think it would be good to include the time zone, as we are all
>> very international these days - and in Australia, adjacent states
>> have different dates for the summer time transition!
>>
>> Personally, I would like to see the date in the format 2014-04-30,
>> but having the day of the week is good.
>>
>> Milliseconds might be useful, if you want to check logs files.
> OK, I will work on it for 9.5. Thanks.
>
So the it would then read something like:

; Archive created at Wed 2014-04-30 10:03:28.042 NZST

(but with the correct appropriate time zone designation)?

Cheers,
Gavin

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