Re: More tzdb fun: POSIXRULES is being deprecated upstream

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: More tzdb fun: POSIXRULES is being deprecated upstream
Date: 2020-06-19 08:09:46
Message-ID: cc8b75dd-d6b0-356b-e3c9-71d069805624@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-06-17 20:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> I would definitely be in favor of "nuke it now" with respect to HEAD.
> It's a bit more debatable for the back branches. However, all branches
> are going to be equally exposed to updated system tzdata trees, so
> we've typically felt that changes in the tz-related code should be
> back-patched.

It seems sensible to me to remove it in master and possibly
REL_13_STABLE, but leave it alone in the back branches.

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