| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 timezone matching |
| Date: | 2010-04-07 17:04:08 |
| Message-ID: | v2g603c8f071004071004h5db2b22cn5d31581163e0ac54@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> why not? we do error out in a lot of other cases as well... Personally I
> find a hard and clear "something is wrong please fix" much more convinient
> than defaulting to something that is more or less completely arbitrary but
> well...
While I can understand why someone might want that behavior in some
cases, in other cases it might be a severe overreaction.
...Robert
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