Thread: pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting

pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting

From
"Rommel the iCeMAn"
Date:
Hi List,

I'm experiencing strange behavior in pgAdmin. I recently noticed that my
PostgreSQL reports a different time to the OS. I checked the time zone
setting and realized it was set to 'Canada/Atlantic'. I tried using
pgAdmin's Backend Configuration Editor to change the time zone in
postgresql.conf to 'America/Barbados' but when I try to save the file,
pgAdmin crashes. The server log has the following entries:

2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT LOG:  database system was shut down at 2008-03-15
14:58:02 ADT
2008-03-17 10:24:58 ADT FATAL:  the database system is starting up
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG:  autovacuum launcher started
2008-03-17 10:24:59 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:31:04 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:31:39 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:32:01 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 10:33:06 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  could not receive data from client: No
connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.


2008-03-17 11:05:52 ADT LOG:  unexpected EOF on client connection
2008-03-17 11:08:47 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:08:52 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:08:56 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:10:02 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"
2008-03-17 11:10:25 ADT LOG:  loaded library
"$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll"


I tried manually editing the postgresql.conf file in Notepad but when I
reload PostgreSQL it ignores the entry in the config file and defaults to
'Canada/Atlantic' time zone. I am using pgAdmin3 v1.8.2.99 and Postgresql
8.3.0. I am able to reproduce this error with PostgreSQL 8.3.0 running on
Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows 2003 SP1. Am I doing something
incorrectly? How do I correctly set the time zone?

Thanks,
Rommel Edwards
Barbados, Caribbean.



Re: pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Rommel the iCeMAn" <icecrew@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm experiencing strange behavior in pgAdmin. I recently noticed that my
> PostgreSQL reports a different time to the OS. I checked the time zone
> setting and realized it was set to 'Canada/Atlantic'. I tried using
> pgAdmin's Backend Configuration Editor to change the time zone in
> postgresql.conf to 'America/Barbados' but when I try to save the file,
> pgAdmin crashes.

Can't help you with that, you'll need to report that on the pgadmin
mailing list.

> I tried manually editing the postgresql.conf file in Notepad but when I
> reload PostgreSQL it ignores the entry in the config file and defaults to
> 'Canada/Atlantic' time zone.

Did you remove the comment marker (#) from the timezone setting line?

            regards, tom lane

Re: pgAdmin Crashes After Changing Timezone Setting

From
"Rommel the iCeMAn"
Date:
> Can't help you with that, you'll need to report that on the pgadmin
> mailing list.

Will do.


> Did you remove the comment marker (#) from the timezone setting line?

Yes I did, which is why it baffles me. Here's what that part of my conf file
looks like:

# - Locale and Formatting -

datestyle = 'iso, mdy'
timezone = 'America/Barbados'        # actually, defaults to TZ
environment
                    # setting
#timezone_abbreviations = 'Default'     # Select the set of available time
zone
                    # abbreviations.  Currently, there
are
                    #   Default
                    #   Australia
                    #   India
                    # You can create your own file in
                    # share/timezonesets/.

Thanks for the response,
Rommel Edwards
Barbados, Caribbean.