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From Dave Page
Subject Re: Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?
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Msg-id 937d27e10806100846w1cad52fbrbe7c6785669aa4e4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> It seems like a bug that we happily output PKST as a timezone (in a
>> 'timestamp with time zone'), but won't accept it back in.
>
> [ shrug... ]  The set of timezone abbrevs recognized on input is
> user-configurable, so that situation will always be possible.

Right, but shouldn't we always output something we know we can read
back in (unambiguously), assuming a server with no user defined
abbreviations?

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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