Add comment about rationale for continuing to use C library functions

instead of src/timezone for timestamping log entries.
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Tom Lane 2004-06-21 14:12:38 +00:00
parent ba6b87f330
commit 5ca40c5d31

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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.140 2004/06/03 02:08:04 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c,v 1.141 2004/06/21 14:12:38 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -1214,6 +1214,16 @@ log_line_prefix(StringInfo buf)
break;
case 't':
{
/*
* Note: for %t and %s we deliberately use the C library's
* strftime/localtime, and not the equivalent functions
* from src/timezone. This ensures that all backends
* will report log entries in the same timezone, namely
* whatever C-library setting they inherit from the
* postmaster. If we used src/timezone then local
* settings of the TimeZone GUC variable would confuse
* the log.
*/
time_t stamp_time = time(NULL);
char strfbuf[128];