From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: DM <dm.aeqa@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Urgent PST time changing tonight
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:14:07 -0700
Message-ID: <49B56A7F.6040004@pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eae6a62a0903072358o15b1cefdt661627cefc05b3b0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <eae6a62a0903072358o15b1cefdt661627cefc05b3b0@mail.gmail.com>
DM wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> PST time changing tonight, I am not sure if this is going to affect
> the database....
IF you are up-to-date on your TZ files the database itself should be
fine. But external processing is another matter - especially if you have
processes that assume conventions from previous PG versions. For example:
PG 7.4 (one day = 24 hours):
select now();
now
-------------------------------
2009-03-09 12:05:42.533139-07
select now()-'2 days'::interval;
?column?
-------------------------------
2009-03-07 11:05:43.963526-08
But in 8.3 (day interval is DST aware):
select now();
now
-------------------------------
2009-03-09 12:04:21.813654-07
select now()-'2 days'::interval;
?column?
-------------------------------
2009-03-07 12:04:47.693384-08
That's just in the database itself and without cross-country processing
(i.e.: if you have somewhat synchronized processes that assume that New
York is 3 hours ahead of San Francisco you can have problems if you
don't consider that New York changed to DST 3 hours ahead of San Francisco).
Then there are the scripts that calculate dates externally for feeding
into your database-backed processes (for fun, try "-d yesterday" and "-d
tomorrow" in most versions of the "date" command in the vicinity of DST
changes).
Cheers,
Steve
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