Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Steve Crawford wrote: >> 1. What, exactly, was the point of moving away from the system zoneinfo >> files and requiring PG admins to maintain yet another apparently >> identical set of files? The fact that not all systems use the zic database. We were tired of random system-to-system variations in the timezone behavior ... plus we needed functionality not exposed by the bog-standard C library API. >> 3. If 2.answer=no then would there be any problem just symlinking the PG >> timezone directory to the system zoneinfo directory? > Uh, I think you could do that, yea, assuming the same binaries could be > used. Remember, it doesn't read the text files but binary representations. I've been thinking of doing that on the Red Hat distro, but the problem is that we are now behind the curve --- we need to sync with the upstream zic code's recently added support for 64-bit timezone files before we can be sure of working with current system-provided databases. I'd like to get that done for 8.3 ... regards, tom lane
