Re: Problem with now() on 7.4.1-3 under cygwin?

OK, I'll look at it from the cygwin end.  Its interesting that
restarting postgres clears it.  Although, I guess this could be a
problem in the cygwin DLL.  Thanks for the very quick response!

McC


Tom Lane wrote:

>Sean McCune <sean@redhandsoftware.com> writes:
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>>I have not run into this problem under Linux before, but that doesn't
>>mean anything.  This application running under cygwin is more heavy duty
>>than what I've run on Linux.  So we don't know if its a general postgres
>>bug or something that's only occurring on cygwin.
>>
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>We have heard of similar things under cygwin, so I'd suppose it's a
>cygwin bug.  Postgres does not do its own timekeeping --- it believes
>whatever time(2) and gettimeofday(2) tell it --- so it's definitely an
>OS-level problem.
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>            regards, tom lane
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