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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-05-10 13:48:40 -0400 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2011-05-10 13:48:40 -0400 |
commit | 1453cd8f82139a3e751c617dc6635f7b1c7abe14 (patch) | |
tree | 9d1ee8d7e60f38ad31e2bfbeb3184e870853cf7c /doc/src | |
parent | 853c1750f91feaa6a72b29ae683c955ab6f4df70 (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 13 |
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> |