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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-05-10 13:48:40 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-05-10 13:48:40 -0400
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Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using "unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone. But I forgot to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index d48f2c35bc3..5d370656261 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -3869,11 +3869,11 @@ FROM pg_stat_activity;
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>
- Sets the time zone used for timestamps written in the log.
+ Sets the time zone used for timestamps written in the server log.
Unlike <xref linkend="guc-timezone">, this value is cluster-wide,
so that all sessions will report timestamps consistently.
- The default is <literal>unknown</>, which means use whatever
- the system environment specifies as the time zone. See <xref
+ If not explicitly set, the server initializes this variable to the
+ time zone specified by its system environment. See <xref
linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more information.
This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
file or on the server command line.
@@ -4918,10 +4918,9 @@ SET XML OPTION { DOCUMENT | CONTENT };
<listitem>
<para>
Sets the time zone for displaying and interpreting time stamps.
- The default is <literal>unknown</>, which means to use whatever
- the system environment specifies as the time zone. See <xref
- linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more
- information.
+ If not explicitly set, the server initializes this variable to the
+ time zone specified by its system environment. See <xref
+ linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more information.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>