Mention DST boundaries as a possible cause of regress test failure.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
index bf7162bb3884eab4ffb370607dc0373e2094b4a8..a4ed601ce4cbb97f96aeaa6bf1dbf9ab6bba69ed 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml
@@ -313,6 +313,15 @@ The runtime path is /usr/local/pgsql (other paths are possible).
   environment variable PGTZ to PST8PDT to ensure proper results.
       </Para>
 
+      <Para>
+       Some of the queries in the "timestamp" test will fail if you run
+       the test on the day of a daylight-savings time changeover, or the
+       day before or after one.  These queries assume that the intervals
+       between midnight yesterday, midnight today and midnight tomorrow are
+       exactly twenty-four hours ... which is wrong if daylight-savings time
+       went into or out of effect meanwhile.
+      </Para>
+
       <Para>
   There appear to be some systems which do not accept the recommended syntax
   for explicitly setting the local time zone rules; you may need to use