Re: Losing data

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Garry Saddington <garry(at)schoolteachers(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Losing data
Date: 2008-06-19 18:20:26
Message-ID: 19287.1213899626@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Garry Saddington <garry(at)schoolteachers(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Oh, and the problem has been intermittant. Another
> thing that happened this morning is that Postgres had today as 18/06/2008
> when in fact it was 19/06/2008 and the OS reported this correctly.

Two theories about that one:

1. Postgres' timezone setting is far away from where you are.

2. You were in a transaction that had been open since yesterday.
now() and related functions show time of transaction start.

#2 is interesting since forgetting to commit an open transaction might
also explain the "data loss" complaint.

regards, tom lane

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