Re: Upgrading from PG 8.3.3 to 9.3.4 - FATAL: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "PST"

> On 5/31/2014 11:47 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 5/31/2014 11:41 PM, David Wall wrote:
>>>
>>>  FATAL:  invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "PST"
>>
>> I'd be using "America/Los_Angeles" as the timezone rather than PST,
>> as the TLA timezones are ambiguous (CST is both Central Standard Time
>> in the USA, and China Standard Time).
>>
>> but thats probably not the problem, hard to guess what is, sounds
>> like you have a lot going on.
>

PG itself has the timezone US/Pacific set in postgresql.conf

In Linux, we show:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 23 16:00 /etc/localtime ->
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

Even when we use PST in our Java code, we use PST8PDT.

The exception occurs when JDBC tries to connect to PG:

2014-05-31 22:14:34,351 ERROR (eSignForms) SQLException:
ConnectionPool.makeConnection(esf) to URL:
jdbc:postgresql://localhost.localdomain:25432/zingr:
2014-05-31 22:14:34,352 ERROR (eSignForms)   Message:   FATAL: invalid
value for parameter "TimeZone": "PST"
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: invalid value for parameter
"TimeZone": "PST"
         at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.readStartupMessages(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:574)
         at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:177)
         at
org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:64)
         at
org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc2Connection.java:138)
         at
org.postgresql.jdbc3.AbstractJdbc3Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc3Connection.java:29)
         at
org.postgresql.jdbc3g.AbstractJdbc3gConnection.<init>(AbstractJdbc3gConnection.java:21)
         at
org.postgresql.jdbc4.AbstractJdbc4Connection.<init>(AbstractJdbc4Connection.java:31)
         at
org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4Connection.<init>(Jdbc4Connection.java:24)
         at org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:410)
         at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:280)
         at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
         at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215)
         at
com.esignforms.db.ConnectionPool.makeConnection(ConnectionPool.java:302)

And of course none seems to explain why it works often enough, but then
fails as more apps are deployed.  Ugh!