From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com>
cc: Wolfgang Walther <walther@technowledgy.de>,
        pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Regression tests fail with tzdata 2024b
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Comments: In-reply-to Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com>
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Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com> writes:
> This is an unfortunate change as this will break extensions tests using
> pg_regress for testing. We run our tests against multiple minor versions
> and this getting backported means our tests will fail with the next minor
> pg release. Is there a workaround available to make the timezone for
> pg_regress configurable without going into every test?

Configurable to what?  If your test cases are dependent on the
historical behavior of PST8PDT, you're out of luck, because that
simply isn't available anymore (or won't be once 2024b reaches
your platform, anyway).

			regards, tom lane