From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
cc: Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>,
        Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
        Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>,
        PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release
 2019a.)
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Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Fair enough. I'm mildly worried that people will just carry their
> timezone setting from one version's postgresql.conf to the next as they
> upgrade.

Maybe.  I don't believe pg_upgrade copies over the old postgresql.conf,
and I doubt we should consider it good practice in any case.

			regards, tom lane