Re: possible when setting the timezone

here it is, including the defenition of the table and view in question, as it
seems it coredumped when it tried to execute a query using a typecast from
timestamptz to timestamp, after setting an invalid timezone, hope it helps.

Nick.

ps. there are some strangely named columns as the db is being translated to
englist at the moment.

#0  0x08224b8c in timesub (timep=0xc0006048, offset=3600, sp=0x82dbfc0,
    tmp=0x82e0bc0) at localtime.c:971
#1  0x08225020 in pg_localtime (timep=0xc0006048) at localtime.c:902
#2  0x081e0024 in timestamp2tm (dt=1136823180, tzp=0xbfbfcfac, tm=0xbfbfcfc0,
    fsec=0xbfbfcfb0, tzn=0xbfbfcfbc) at timestamp.c:1081
#3  0x081e5381 in timestamptz_timestamp (fcinfo=0xc0006048) at
timestamp.c:3939
#4  0x08121e68 in ExecMakeFunctionResult (fcache=0x83ff6f8,
    econtext=0x83ff188, isNull=0xbfbfd14b "", isDone=0x8403d24)
    at execQual.c:1042
#5  0x0812554f in ExecProject (projInfo=0x82dbfc0, isDone=0xbfbfd180)
    at execQual.c:3568
#6  0x0812d913 in ExecNestLoop (node=0x83ff570) at nodeNestloop.c:248
#7  0x08120b4b in ExecProcNode (node=0x83ff570) at execProcnode.c:326
#8  0x0812ec6e in ExecSort (node=0x83ff4e8) at nodeSort.c:102
#9  0x08120b0f in ExecProcNode (node=0x83ff4e8) at execProcnode.c:345
#10 0x0812f33e in ExecLimit (node=0x83ff0b8) at nodeLimit.c:87
#11 0x08120abb in ExecProcNode (node=0x83ff0b8) at execProcnode.c:369
#12 0x0811fa7f in ExecutorRun (queryDesc=0x83ff0b8,
    direction=ForwardScanDirection, count=0) at execMain.c:1060
#13 0x0819bb41 in PortalRunSelect (portal=0x8366018, forward=72 'H', count=0,
    dest=0x83e6fc0) at pquery.c:746
#14 0x0819c18a in PortalRun (portal=0x8366018, count=2147483647,
    dest=0x83e6fc0, altdest=0x83e6fc0, completionTag=0xbfbfd470 "")
    at pquery.c:561
#15 0x081982c0 in exec_simple_query (
    query_string=0x8362018 "SELECT memo_id, memo_title, memo_comment,
memo_date::timestamp, bedrijf_id, persoon_id, initialenachternaam,
bedrijfsnaam FROM v_memos  ORDER BY memo_date DESC LIMIT 30 OFFSET 0") at
postgres.c:933
#16 0x08199adc in PostgresMain (argc=4, argv=0x82f6268,
    username=0x82f6238 "adminuser") at postgres.c:3007
#17 0x0816ecee in ServerLoop () at postmaster.c:2836
#18 0x081704d1 in PostmasterMain (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfed64) at postmaster.c:918
#19 0x0813dc36 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfed64) at main.c:268

v_memos is a view, created using
create or replace view v_memos as select
    memo_id, memo_comment, memo_title, memo_date, memos.bedrijf_id,
    memos.persoon_id,
    v_personen.persoon_initialenachternaam as initialenachternaam,
    bedrijven.bedrijf_naam as bedrijfsnaam
    from bedrijven inner join memos using (bedrijf_id) inner join v_personen
using (persoon_id)
 \d memos;
                                         Table "public.memos"
    Column    |           Type           |                         Modifiers
--------------+--------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------
 memo_id      | integer                  | not null default
nextval('public.memos_memo_id_seq'::text)
 memo_title   | text                     | not null
 memo_comment | text                     | not null
 memo_date    | timestamp with time zone | not null
 bedrijf_id   | bigint                   | not null
 persoon_id   | bigint                   | not null
Indexes:
    "memos_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (memo_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "memos_bedrijf_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (bedrijf_id) REFERENCES
bedrijven(bedrijf_id)
    "memos_persoon_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (persoon_id) REFERENCES
personen(persoon_id)

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:23, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nick Martens <nick80@xs4all.nl> writes:
> > Jan 10 17:14:40 dndwebdev01 postgres[17374]: [1-1] ERROR:  unrecognized
> > time zone name: "America/Indiana"
> > Jan 10 17:14:40 dndwebdev01 kernel: pid 17374 (postgres), uid 70: exited
> > on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> Doesn't happen for me:
>
> regression=# set timezone = 'America/Indiana';
> ERROR:  unrecognized time zone name: "America/Indiana"
> regression=# set timezone = 'America/Indiana';
> ERROR:  unrecognized time zone name: "America/Indiana"
> regression=# set timezone = 'America/Indiana';
> ERROR:  unrecognized time zone name: "America/Indiana"
> regression=#
>
> (This is with 8.0.6, but I don't see any related fixes in the CVS logs.)
>
> Can you get a stack trace from the core dump?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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>        choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
>        match