Bhushan Pathak <bhushan.pathak02@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello, > > I have postgresql 9.2.4 running on a CentOS 5 server. A JBOSS AS instance also runs on the same server, which connects to postgresql server [using defined connection > pools]. > > The issue I'm facing is that the JBOSS server is throwing out the error - > org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "America/New_York" > > When I looked up on the internet, most common answer was to execute the following query from CLI which would expose the real problem - > > myDB=# SELECT * FROM pg_timezone_names WHERE name = 'America/New_York'; > ERROR: Â could not stat "/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York": Too many levels of symbolic links > > What does this really mean? Why is postgresql complaining for symbolic links? Any ideas what has gone wrong? Any thing that needs checking? Something is fishy in your filesystem such as a link loop... see this trivial example; sj$ pwd /tmp sj$ ln -s foo bar sj$ ln -s bar foo sj$ cat foo cat: foo: Too many levels of symbolic links sj$ ls -l foo bar lrwxrwxrwx 1 yomama yomama 3 May 29 11:38 bar -> foo lrwxrwxrwx 1 yomama yomama 3 May 29 11:38 foo -> bar > > Thanks > > Bhushan Pathak > -- Jerry Sievers Postgres DBA/Development Consulting e: postgres.consulting@xxxxxxxxxxx p: 312.241.7800
