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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Tom Lane
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Clarify exactly when DST-changeover-induced regression test failures
can be expected to occur.
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<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.3
1 2003/03/13 01:30:29 petere
Exp $ -->
<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml,v 1.3
2 2003/04/06 17:47:24 tgl
Exp $ -->
<chapter id="regress">
<title id="regress-title">Regression Tests</title>
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@@ -201,14 +201,26 @@ gmake installcheck
<title>Date and time differences</title>
<para>
Some
of the queries in the <filename>horology</filename> test will
A few
of the queries in the <filename>horology</filename> test will
fail if you run the test on the day of a daylight-saving time
changeover, or the day
before or after one. These queries assume
th
at th
e intervals between midnight yesterday, midnight today and
changeover, or the day
after one. These queries expect that
the intervals between midnight yesterday, midnight today and
midnight tomorrow are exactly twenty-four hours --- which is wrong
if daylight-saving time went into or out of effect meanwhile.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Because USA daylight-saving rules are used, this problem always
occurs on the first Sunday of April, the last Sunday of October,
and their following Mondays, regardless of when daylight-saving
is in effect where you live. Also note that the problem appears or
disappears at midnight Pacific time (UTC-7 or UTC-8), not midnight
your local time. Thus the failure may appear late on Saturday or
persist through much of Tuesday, depending on where you live.
</para>
</note>
<para>
Most of the date and time results are dependent on the time zone
environment. The reference files are generated for time zone
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