From d8b5c95ca8a2ce7cd4062d4a12710ca977bac87c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:51:23 +0000 Subject: Remove hard-wired lists of timezone abbreviations in favor of providing configuration files that can be altered by a DBA. The australian_timezones GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones). The list of zone names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too. Documentation still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get rid of it? Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi. --- src/timezone/tznames/README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/timezone/tznames/README (limited to 'src/timezone/tznames/README') diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/README b/src/timezone/tznames/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ce4538873e --- /dev/null +++ b/src/timezone/tznames/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This directory contains files with timezone sets for PostgreSQL. The problem +is that time zone abbreviations are not unique throughout the world and you +might find out that a time zone abbreviation in the `Default' set collides +with the one you wanted to use. All other files except for `Default' are +intended to override values from the `Default' set. So you might already have +a file here that serves your needs. If not, you can create your own. + +In order to use one of these files, you need to set + + timezone_abbreviations = 'xyz' + +in any of the usual ways for setting a parameter, where xyz is the filename +that contains the desired time zone names. + +If you do not find an appropriate set of time zone names for your geographic +location supplied here, please report this to . +Your set of time zone names can then be included in future releases. +For the time being you can always add your own set. -- cgit v1.2.1