On 06/02/2011 03:15 AM, Paolo Saudin wrote:
> Trying to convert unix time to date time format, I encountered a database
> crash.
This is a known issue, and will be addressed in the next beta. Detail
from an earlier post by Tom Lane:
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=2e82d0b396473b595a30f68b37b8dfd41c37dff8http://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