postgresql/src/backend/postmaster
Bruce Momjian aa8bdab272 Attached patch gets rid of the global timezone in the following steps:
* Changes the APIs to the timezone functions to take a pg_tz pointer as
an argument, representing the timezone to use for the selected
operation.

* Adds a global_timezone variable that represents the current timezone
in the backend as set by SET TIMEZONE (or guc, or env, etc).

* Implements a hash-table cache of loaded tables, so we don't have to
read and parse the TZ file everytime we change a timezone. While not
necesasry now (we don't change timezones very often), I beleive this
will be necessary (or at least good) when "multiple timezones in the
same query" is eventually implemented. And code-wise, this was the time
to do it.


There are no user-visible changes at this time. Implementing the
"multiple zones in one query" is a later step...

This also gets rid of some of the cruft needed to "back out a timezone
change", since we previously couldn't check a timezone unless it was
activated first.

Passes regression tests on win32, linux (slackware 10) and solaris x86.

Magnus Hagander
2005-04-19 03:13:59 +00:00
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Makefile Refactor fork()-related code. We need to do various housekeeping tasks 2005-03-10 07:14:03 +00:00
bgwriter.c Replace the BufMgrLock with separate locks on the lookup hashtable and 2005-03-04 20:21:07 +00:00
fork_process.c Wrap the implementation of fork_process() inside #ifndef WIN32 -- this 2005-03-16 00:02:39 +00:00
pgarch.c Refactor fork()-related code. We need to do various housekeeping tasks 2005-03-10 07:14:03 +00:00
pgstat.c Marginal hack to use a specialized hash function for dynahash hashtables 2005-04-14 20:32:43 +00:00
postmaster.c Kerberos fixes from Magnus Hagander --- in theory Kerberos 5 auth 2005-03-25 00:34:31 +00:00
syslogger.c Attached patch gets rid of the global timezone in the following steps: 2005-04-19 03:13:59 +00:00