Re: Log line prefix on win32

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I was thinking of adding %z as an option to log_line prefix, so to get
> the current output you would do '%t %z'. I was not suggesting changing
> the %Z passed to strftime if they ask for timezone.

I think this is a bad idea, mainly because you couldn't easily get the
same output. It would be almost the same, except when you crossed a DST
boundary in between the two calls to strftime; in which case you'd get a
completely misleading result.

I believe that in the long run we will stop using the platform-specific
strftime at all, and go over to using just our own code, which makes
this not a permanent problem but just an artifact of the fact that we
haven't completely finished the process of absorbing src/timezone/.
So I'd rather not invent an API element simply because Windows' strftime
sucks.

regards, tom lane