On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
