pg.ddx.io  pgsql-committers@postgresql.org mailing list archive  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:59:11 -0400
Message-ID: <8331.1564682351@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801171951.pzpp5ywdn4pgqjzc@alap3.anarazel.de>
References: <2643.1561508327@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<877e98syi5.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
	<CA+hUKGLZN3XHqZPN08itV4W-Nu3ndZ9zKJGSvzoWLm6AU9vz-g@mail.gmail.com>
	<8736jwsdv2.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
	<17148.1561568815@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<87y31oq9g6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
	<CA+hUKGJniUoFuC8vPJBKbMWNwvZo_wGQ8gVAZFCS068Rei9dzQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<3961.1564086915@!sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<CADT4RqBkkWEXr7saiFhwSptuYBAEU_e_XZxRD3o7GCSuk++Y9A@mail.gmail.com>
	<5560.1564668481@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<20190801171951.pzpp5ywdn4pgqjzc@alap3.anarazel.de>

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> When used and a symlink, could we resolve the symlink when determining
> the timezone? When loading a timezone in the backend, not during
> initdb. While that'd leave us with the instability, it'd at least would
> help clients etc understand what the setting actually means?

The question here is what the string "localtime" means when it's in
the timezone variable.

I guess yes, we could install some show_hook for timezone
that goes and looks to see if it can resolve what that means.
But that sure seems to me to be in you've-got-to-be-kidding
territory.  Especially since the platforms I've seen that
do this tend to use hard links, so that it's questionable
whether the pushups would accomplish anything at all.

			regards, tom lane





view thread (74+ messages)  latest in thread

Message-ID: <8331.1564682351@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Permalink:  ../8331.1564682351@sss.pgh.pa.us/
Also on:    postgresql.org/message-id/8331.1564682351@sss.pgh.pa.us

 · 

reply
Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: pgsql-committers@postgresql.org
  Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, andres@anarazel.de, roji@roji.org, thomas.munro@gmail.com, andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk, robertmhaas@gmail.com, sfrost@snowman.net, myon@debian.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
  Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
  In-Reply-To: <8331.1564682351@sss.pgh.pa.us>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox