On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:33:51PM +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > 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)? > > I think we would use a numeric offset.
I ended up going with the string-based timezone as I was worried that the sign of the timezone could easily confuse people because the SQL timezone offset sign is often different from the OS timezone. The new output is: ; ; Archive created at Wed Sep 3 16:12:21 2014 EST <-- ; dbname: test ; TOC Entries: 8 ; Compression: -1 ; Dump Version: 1.12-0 ; Format: CUSTOM ; Integer: 4 bytes ; Offset: 8 bytes ; Dumped from database version: 9.5devel ; Dumped by pg_dump version: 9.5devel Patch attached. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. +
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c new file mode 100644 index 0018720..4296c11 *** a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c --- b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c *************** PrintTOCSummary(Archive *AHX, RestoreOpt *** 969,975 **** if (ropt->filename) SetOutput(AH, ropt->filename, 0 /* no compression */ ); ! ahprintf(AH, ";\n; Archive created at %s", ctime(&AH->createDate)); ahprintf(AH, "; dbname: %s\n; TOC Entries: %d\n; Compression: %d\n", AH->archdbname, AH->tocCount, AH->compression); --- 969,975 ---- if (ropt->filename) SetOutput(AH, ropt->filename, 0 /* no compression */ ); ! ahprintf(AH, ";\n; Archive created at %.24s %s\n", ctime(&AH->createDate), *tzname); ahprintf(AH, "; dbname: %s\n; TOC Entries: %d\n; Compression: %d\n", AH->archdbname, AH->tocCount, AH->compression);
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