Re: Aussie timezone database changes incoming

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew McNamara <andrewm(at)object-craft(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Aussie timezone database changes incoming
Date: 2014-10-04 18:21:24
Message-ID: 17219.1412446884@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>> Indeed, this has been a pain in the ass for a long long time.

> It's good news that people think this will be an improvement.

> I've not dug into the change details to be sure, but I think probably
> I was overthinking it upthread. We seem to already have some of the
> new abbreviations installed, and the other ones do not conflict with
> anything. So we'll just add them and be happy. What we should do
> with the "Australia" abbreviations file is re-document it as being
> appropriate for historical usage only. Anyone who's got that
> selected will continue to see the behavior they did before.

I've committed changes for this in advance of the upcoming 9.4beta3
release. Hopefully, if this is seriously bad for anyone, we'll hear
about it from beta testers before it gets into any official back-branch
releases.

regards, tom lane

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