Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-06-17T17:39:43Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2019-06-14 23:14:09 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> So here is my current proposed fix.

Before pushing a commit that's controversial - and this clearly seems to
somewhat be - it'd be good to give others a heads up that you intend to
do so, so they can object. Rather than just pushing less than 24h later,
without a warning.

- Andres

Commits

Tweak our special-case logic for the IANA "Factory" timezone.
- f6c7c64e9fc8 9.6.15 landed
- f227aecb9af7 9.5.19 landed
- e49132e633b5 9.4.24 landed
- d304313b071a 11.5 landed
- d095b2fe676a 12.0 landed
- 8ab66081ca49 13.0 landed
- 55862b2e9303 10.10 landed
Avoid choosing "localtime" or "posixrules" as TimeZone during initdb.
- 6c4ffab76320 9.4.24 landed
- 9ef8117420d4 9.5.19 landed
- 51b47471f0f6 9.6.15 landed
- ae9b91be79ea 10.10 landed
- 4459266bf0d3 11.5 landed
- e31dfe99c8c6 12.0 landed
- 3754113f3365 13.0 landed
Prefer timezone name "UTC" over alternative spellings.
- e3846a00c2f8 12.0 cited
Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink.
- 995b4fe0b14f 11.4 landed
- 8de574aa8bf7 10.9 landed
- 77dc741a1727 9.5.18 landed
- 75b0f21e1b19 9.6.14 landed
- 37011bcb30a9 9.4.23 landed
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.
- f6307bacabf5 11.3 cited