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Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Timezone from PG8 to PG9
From: Tom Lane <tgl () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us>
Date: 2013-12-21 0:11:01
Message-ID: 25616.1387584661 () sss ! pgh ! pa ! us
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Deron <fecastle@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello we were upgrading a test system from PG8.3.6 to PG 9.3 and it appears
> as though the timezone is not set on the new PG9.3. I should say that we
> never did set the timezone for PG8, but somehow the PG server knew the
> 'localtime' of the system:
> show timezone;
> TimeZone
> ------------
> US/Eastern
> (1 row)
> However, after upgrading to PG9:
> show timezone;
> TimeZone
> ----------
> GMT
> (1 row)
> We saw the same for US/Pacific zone as well.
> We do set /etc/localtime for the local timezone of the box. We can
> configure this in the postgresql.conf file. It does appear as though PG9
> server reads /etc/localtime on startup, but it is not set.
IIRC, we moved the determination of the default timezone into initdb
somewhere along the line; so what matters now is the system environment
initdb saw, not what the server sees on start. If you don't like what
you're getting, change it in postgresql.conf.
regards, tom lane
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