pg.ddx.io pgsql-committers@postgresql.org mailing list archive help / color / mirror / Atom feed From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:48:16 +0100
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> No zone1970.tab.
zone.tab is an adequate substitute - a fact which I thought was
sufficiently obvious as to not be worth mentioning.
(also see https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20646 )
Tom> I do not think we can rely on that file being there, since zic
Tom> itself doesn't install it; it's up to packagers whether or where
Tom> to install the "*.tab" files.
The proposed rules I suggested do work almost as well if zone[1970].tab
is absent, though obviously that's not the optimal situation. But are
there any systems which lack it? It's next to impossible to implement a
sane "ask the user what timezone to use" procedure without it.
Tom> In general, the point I'm trying to make is that our policy should
Tom> be "Ties are broken arbitrarily, and if you don't like the choice
Tom> that initdb makes, here's how to fix it".
Yes, you've repeated that point at some length, and I am not convinced.
Is anyone else?
--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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