Re: Timezone abbreviations - out but not in?

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> It seems like a bug that we happily output PKST as a timezone (in a
>> 'timestamp with time zone'), but won't accept it back in.
>
> [ shrug... ]  The set of timezone abbrevs recognized on input is
> user-configurable, so that situation will always be possible.

Right, but shouldn't we always output something we know we can read
back in (unambiguously), assuming a server with no user defined
abbreviations?

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Dave Page
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