Re: PostgreSQL Timezone and Brazilian DST

Thanks, Tom.
I'll play a bit with this in a development server.

Regards,

Atenciosamente,

Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter

Em 28/10/2015 12:06, Tom Lane escreveu:
> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> writes:
>> No, if the above does not indicate a problem, then the issue is
>> probably, as Francisco said, in the timezone definitions. The thing is,
>> you are on 9.3.10 which has the latest time zone data file:
> Since OEL is a naked ripoff of Red Hat, I would assume that they configure
> Postgres the same way Red Hat does, ie --with-system-tzdata. So what will
> matter in that respect is whether your "tzdata" package is up to date, not
> which PG version you're running.
>
> However, AFAICT the spring DST transition rule in Brazil hasn't changed
> since 2008 or so, so it seems rather unlikely that anybody would have
> tzdata old enough for that to be a problem.
>
> I'm betting the OP simply didn't have Postgres' timezone parameter set
> properly. Yes, that can be fixed with a reload (as a moment's
> experimentation would have shown).
>
> regards, tom lane
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