Re: SQL solution for my JDBC timezone issue

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: George Woodring <george(dot)woodring(at)iglass(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SQL solution for my JDBC timezone issue
Date: 2015-02-23 20:32:31
Message-ID: CADK3HHL-5YnbyHb5SVQExZ0pj9XT1fVJr06fjitU234Wh3w3+w@mail.gmail.com
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George,

Everytime you get a connection the driver will issue set timezone ...

It does not change the default time zone for the server (AFAICS)

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On 23 February 2015 at 15:29, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 02/23/2015 12:15 PM, George Woodring wrote:
>
>> This is what I was looking for, however the JDBC does something to make
>> its timezone the default.
>>
>> My cluster is set to GMT, I have a DB that is set to US/Pacific, when I
>> get the connection from JDBC it is US/Eastern. The reset command does
>> not affect it. I can set timezone in the code to 'US/Pacific" and I see
>> it change, when I do another RESET timezone it goes back to US/Eastern.
>>
>
> In your original post you mentioned that access to the databases is
> through a Web server.
>
> Is there just one Web server with one time zone?
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> George Woodring
>>
>> iGLASS Networks
>> www.iglass.net <http://www.iglass.net>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
>> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>> wrote:
>>
>> George Woodring <george(dot)woodring(at)iglass(dot)net
>> <mailto:george(dot)woodring(at)iglass(dot)net>> writes:
>> > Yes, that is where we think we are heading, the issue is that the
>> code does
>> > not know what it needs to be set back to. We have 90 databases
>> with 5
>> > different time zones. I was just hoping for a more elegant
>> solution than
>> > writing a lookup table that says if you are connecting to db x then
>> set to
>> > timezone y.
>>
>> "RESET timezone" ?
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>

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