Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:14:00 -0700
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>,
	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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Hi,

On 2019-06-20 12:02:30 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:52 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > I don't want to come across as implying that I'm saying what was done
> > was 'fine', or that we shouldn't be having this conversation, I'm just
> > trying to figure out how we can frame it in a way that we learn from it
> > and work to improve on it for the future, should something like this
> > happen again.
> 
> I agree that it's a difficult situation.  I do kind of wonder whether
> we were altogether overreacting.  If we had shipped it as it was,
> what's the worst thing that would have happened?

I think it's not good, but also nothing particularly bad came out of
it. I don't think we should try to set up procedures for future
occurances, and rather work/plan on that not happening very often.

Greetings,

Andres Freund