Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jmC5z-0000qC-6o for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:09:55 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jmC5w-0001FT-TQ for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:09:52 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jmC5w-0001FM-MO for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:09:52 +0000 Received: from forward2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.226]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jmC5t-0001UZ-Ct for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:09:51 +0000 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailforward.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0309194425C; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:09:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=upEgADoUNK4fYc9mMbhYCTs0HaV/5xZGeLQV8OEOY yM=; b=lLBvA7yQJyCQQEumDMtrrPdMajrkAuwLw+mRxnQymTgtIPIWfBs1EQ0Vb nRiS7hiSID1FMPWpz02gXZaeloYtk+1OES3FXbmn77C143Oq5YU9WD3uAu2P2rSZ xXxADb6D/p1LCwh5WqkokEvpD4UxtxDUsLpfCcCdo66aEYQbcAPzRvl/tXsKPtkV /gSfuSwA8Ih01SWrylH0L+giNnKhGlo2kji/VxamlXThg33+uvoNFcnEtnm2bCC1 E5f4ISMrwa0A30GrNlns1EMjGWcHf9uptOgkQDK5fx7O3VY7p+wgfxElmK3To+6T 871zzPdK3ztvMcbfohtjdtZwZrBWQ== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduhedrudejiecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurf hrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecuuegr ihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhepuffvfhfhohfkffgfgggjtgfgsehtjeertd dtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpefrvghtvghrucfgihhsvghnthhrrghuthcuoehpvghtvghrrdgv ihhsvghnthhrrghuthesvdhnughquhgrughrrghnthdrtghomheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvg hrnheptdevgeehtdejvdevvdeljeeuveejjedtleelgfekleefieekjeelgfektdduuedv necuffhomhgrihhnpedvnhguqhhurggurhgrnhhtrdgtohhmnecukfhppeelfedrvdegfe drudeluddrvdefkeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhl fhhrohhmpehpvghtvghrrdgvihhsvghnthhrrghuthesvdhnughquhgrughrrghnthdrtg homh X-ME-Proxy: Received: from april.pezone.net (p5df3bfee.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.243.191.238]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id F293330614FA; Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:09:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: More tzdb fun: POSIXRULES is being deprecated upstream To: Tom Lane , pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org References: <1390.1562258309@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1452646.1592417333@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Peter Eisentraut Organization: 2ndQuadrant Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:09:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1452646.1592417333@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On 2020-06-17 20:08, Tom Lane wrote: > I would definitely be in favor of "nuke it now" with respect to HEAD. > It's a bit more debatable for the back branches. However, all branches > are going to be equally exposed to updated system tzdata trees, so > we've typically felt that changes in the tz-related code should be > back-patched. It seems sensible to me to remove it in master and possibly REL_13_STABLE, but leave it alone in the back branches. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services