Re: Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...
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Msg-id 3AEDA7DE.FC815C9A@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to Re: Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses date conversion (was Re: Re: v7.1.1 branched and released on Tuesday ...)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Thomas, what do you think of the persistent reports of date conversion
> problems at DST boundaries, eg, Ayal Leibowitz's report today in
> pgsql-bugs?  I cannot reproduce any such problem --- and my local
> timezone database claims that MET DST transitions are the last week of
> March, never the first week of April, anyway.  There's something funny
> going on there.

Yes. I tried the example on 7.0.2 (and 7.1) and could not get it to
misbehave. I was guessing that it involves string->date conversion,
which may pass through timestamp to get there, but it looks like there
is an explicit text->date conversion function so time zone should just
never be involved. Really!
                  - Thomas


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