From: | Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, joe(at)mcknight(dot)de, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: zic data updates |
Date: | 2006-11-21 00:34:22 |
Message-ID: | 20061121003422.GB2996@timbira.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> [ shrug... ] And by the time we release 8.2, it'll no doubt have
> changed twice more. Folks who live in countries where DST rules change
> with no notice will probably have to get used to downloading and
> installing zic updates for themselves, because there's no chance that
> our releases will be perfectly up to date.
>
Maybe we need to point out somewhere in the docs how to update our zic
database. Upgrade to a newer postgresql version is not the "right"
answer though. Maybe a small note in Chapter 14 or 22?
> For the Red Hat RPMs, I've been considering modifying the installed
> file tree to link to /usr/share/zoneinfo so that Postgres would track
> routine updates to the tzdata package automatically. This relies on
> knowing that the system uses the same zic database format we do, and
> where it keeps it, so I fear it's not a very portable answer :-(.
No, it's not. Separated projects have different directions sometimes so
it's not worth the risk.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
http://www.timbira.com/
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