>> I agree with your request here, but I don't think negative values are >> the right way to implement that, at least it would not be very usable. > > I think that my proposal is the easiest and simplist way to solve this > problem. And I believe that the man who cannot calculate the difference in > time-zone doesn't set replication cluster across continents. > > >> My suggestion would be to add the TZ to the checkpoint record. This >> way all users of WAL can see the TZ of the master and act accordingly. >> I'll do a separate patch for that. > > It is something useful for also other situations. However, it might be > going to happen long and complicated discussions... I think that our hope is > to commit this patch in this commit-fest or next final commit-fest.
Agreed on no delay for the delay patch, as shown by my commit.