Re: inconsistent time zone formats in log

On 2012-12-29 07:23:24 -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> The xlog code uses two different time zone formats at various times.
> Here is an example:
>
> 2012-12-29 07:04:07.338 EST LOG:  database system was interrupted; last known up at 2012-12-29 06:27:02 EST
> 2012-12-29 07:04:26.347 EST LOG:  last completed transaction was at log time 2012-12-29 06:34:24.394802-05
>
> The second format also does not respect log_timezone, which seems a bit
> of a bug.
>
> It's also not clear why we need three different ways to show
> milliseconds within the space of two lines.

One is a pg_time_t (stored in pg_control/ControlFileData), the other is
a TimestampTz. Those have completely different code paths for being
printed (pg_strftime vs EncodeDateTime) ...
I don't want to say its impossible or shouldn't be fixed, just that its
not trivial to do so.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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