Re: [HACKERS] We're not lax enough about maximum time zone offset from UTC

2012-08-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:51:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:10:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> However, as pointed out by Patric, if you dump and restore an old > >> timestamptz value in one of these zones, it will fail to restore because > >>

Re: [HACKERS] We're not lax enough about maximum time zone offset from UTC

2012-08-30 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:10:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> However, as pointed out by Patric, if you dump and restore an old >> timestamptz value in one of these zones, it will fail to restore because >> of the sanity check. I think therefore that we'd better enlarge the

Re: [HACKERS] We're not lax enough about maximum time zone offset from UTC

2012-08-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 06:10:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Currently, our datetime input code thinks that any UTC offset of more > than 14:59:59 either way from Greenwich must be a mistake. However, > after seeing Patric Bechtel's recent bug report, I went trolling in the > Olson timezone files t

Re: [HACKERS] We're not lax enough about maximum time zone offset from UTC

2012-05-30 Thread Tom Lane
"David E. Wheeler" writes: > On May 30, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> However, as pointed out by Patric, if you dump and restore an old >> timestamptz value in one of these zones, it will fail to restore because >> of the sanity check. I think therefore that we'd better enlarge the >> allo

Re: [HACKERS] We're not lax enough about maximum time zone offset from UTC

2012-05-30 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 30, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > However, as pointed out by Patric, if you dump and restore an old > timestamptz value in one of these zones, it will fail to restore because > of the sanity check. I think therefore that we'd better enlarge the > allowed range to 15:59:59 either way.