On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 20:22 +0530, Bhushan Pathak wrote: > 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: 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? > > > Thanks > > > Bhushan Pathak We are still running 9.2.4. This query works fine here:- "SELECT * FROM pg_timezone_names WHERE name = '$tz_name'::text" HTH Robert