| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.) |
| Date: | 2019-06-19 23:30:44 |
| Message-ID: | 29832.1560987044@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> So I'm toying with the idea of extending Andrew's patch to put a negative
> preference on "localtime", ensuring we'll use some other name for the zone
> if one is available.
Oh ... after further review it seems like "posixrules" should be
de-preferred on the same basis: it's uninformative and unportable,
and it's short enough to have a good chance of capturing initdb's
attention. I recall having seen at least one machine picking it
recently.
Moreover, while I think most tzdb installations have that file (ours
certainly do), the handwriting is on the wall for it to go away,
leaving only postmaster startup failures behind:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2019-June/028172.html
regards, tom lane
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