From 1453cd8f82139a3e751c617dc6635f7b1c7abe14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:48:40 -0400
Subject: Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.

The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using
"unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone.  But I forgot
to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
---
 doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index d48f2c35bc3..5d370656261 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -3869,11 +3869,11 @@ FROM pg_stat_activity;
       </indexterm>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Sets the time zone used for timestamps written in the log.
+        Sets the time zone used for timestamps written in the server log.
         Unlike <xref linkend="guc-timezone">, this value is cluster-wide,
         so that all sessions will report timestamps consistently.
-        The default is <literal>unknown</>, which means use whatever
-        the system environment specifies as the time zone.  See <xref
+        If not explicitly set, the server initializes this variable to the
+        time zone specified by its system environment.  See <xref
         linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more information.
         This parameter can only be set in the <filename>postgresql.conf</>
         file or on the server command line.
@@ -4918,10 +4918,9 @@ SET XML OPTION { DOCUMENT | CONTENT };
       <listitem>
        <para>
         Sets the time zone for displaying and interpreting time stamps.
-        The default is <literal>unknown</>, which means to use whatever
-        the system environment specifies as the time zone.  See <xref
-        linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more
-        information.
+        If not explicitly set, the server initializes this variable to the
+        time zone specified by its system environment.  See <xref
+        linkend="datatype-timezones"> for more information.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
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