Re: Postgresql logfilename and times in GMT - not EST

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Bryan Montgomery <monty@english.net> wrote:
>>> I changed postgres.conf to have timezone = 'EST' and restarted postgres.
>>> However the log file is still 5 hours ahead. What gives? Not the end of the
>>> world but a bit annoying.
>
>> you need to set log_timezone .  This is a new 'feature' in 9.2 that
>> annoyed me as well.  I assume that there was a good use case for this.
>
> "New"?  log_timezone has been around since 8.3, and it seems like a good
> idea to me --- what if you have N sessions each with its own active
> timezone setting?  Timestamps in the log would be an unreadable mismash
> if there weren't a separate log_timezone setting.
>
> What did change in 9.2 is that initdb sets values for timezone and
> log_timezone in postgresql.conf, so it's the initdb environment that
> will determine what you get in the absence of any manual action.
> Before that it was the postmaster's environment.

Sorry, I meant new, in that its impact changed in 9.2 such that it
needed to be explicitly set to not get UTC by default, whereas in the
past that wasn't required.