Re: BUG #6046: select current_date crashes postgres

So much for my worries about a big long conversation. The short answer
from Tom Lane, who committed the fixes to git:

Tom Lane wrote:
> This is the known problem with timezone abbreviations not being
> initialized correctly on Windows --- anything involving interpreting a
> "keyword" in datetime input will go belly up.  See commits 2e82d0b39,
> e05b86644.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Those commits have a more detailed explanation, and can be found here:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=2e82d0b396473b595a30f68b37b8dfd41c37dff8

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=e05b866447899211a0c2df31bf0671faac4fc3e5

but the short version appears to be "Fixed in the next version".

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Craig Ringer