Re: Australian timezone configure option

> > Hi,
> >
> > Being in Australia, it's always been a minor pain building the support
> > for Australian timezone rules by defining USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES to the
> > compiler.  Not to mention the not inconsiderable pain involved in pawing
> > through the code and documentation trying to work out why the timezones
> > were wrong in the first place.
>
> OK, this patch makes Australian_timezones a GUC option.  It can be set
> anytime in psql.  The code uses a static variable to check if the GUC
> setting has changed and adjust the C struct accordingly.  I have also
> added code to allow the regression tests to pass even if postgresql.conf
> has australian_timezones defined.

Here is a diff for the documentation.

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        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>

+       <term>AUSTRALIAN_TIMEZONES (<type>bool</type>)</term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         If set to true, <literal>CST</literal>, <literal>EST</literal>,
+         and <literal>SAT</literal> are interpreted as Australian
+         timezones rather than as North American Central/Eastern
+         Timezones and Saturday. The default is false.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
        <indexterm>
         <primary>SSL</primary>