Re: DST failing on 8.1.3

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: PGSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DST failing on 8.1.3
Date: 2007-03-14 20:29:22
Message-ID: 2727383D-6F32-4775-89C4-E9C7ECDFE966@khera.org
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Should work to just copy over the timezone directory tree from a
> correct
> installation on the same machine architecture (I can't recall right
> now
> if the file format is machine-dependent or not). You might have to
> restart the postmaster too, before it starts behaving entirely sanely.

The compiled zone info files are compatible across time and space.

I just copied the correct US Eastern time zone file from an amd64
FreeBSD 6.1 system onto a NSLU2 running a hacked embedded linux using
an arm chip (I use it as an NFS file server) and it did the right thing.

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