Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: TIMEZONE names - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: TIMEZONE names
Date
Msg-id CAKFQuwa5HfZjpk3AgkLhVBSe2V5YnRMiZVLCoT0TEc2V9pbqqA@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to TIMEZONE names  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
List pgsql-docs
Tree view


On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 12:28 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/datatype-datetime.html
Description:

The documentation states that some timezone names are recognized.  As far as
I understand others aren't.

This seems to be true:
$psql postgres -c "set TIMEZONE='bug' ; show timezone;"
ERROR:  invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "bug"
$ echo $?
1

However adding a correct numerical offset leads Postgresql to accept a
non-existing timezone name:
$ psql postgres -c "set TIMEZONE='bug-1' ; show timezone;"
$ echo $?
0

That would be the Appendix B material the documentation is referencing.

David J.

pgsql-docs by date:

Previous
From: "David G. Johnston"
Date:
Subject: Re: Cities name column name inconsistent
Next
From: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)"
Date:
Subject: Re: Clarification needed