Thanks
Deepak
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DM wrote:
Hi All,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:
PST time changing tonight, I am not sure if this is going to affect the database....
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
