Re: More tzdb fun: POSIXRULES is being deprecated upstream

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2020-06-28T15:02:22Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Seems like I'm not getting any traction in convincing people that
back-patching this change is wise.  To get this closed out before
the CF starts, I'm just going to put it into HEAD/v13 and call it
a day.

I remain of the opinion that we'll probably regret not doing
anything in the back branches, sometime in the next 4+ years.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

Remove support for timezone "posixrules" file.
- ea57e531b948 14.0 landed
- 21aac2ff96e3 13.0 landed
Future-proof regression tests against possibly-missing posixrules file.
- 577dcf890cdb 13.0 landed
- 2c8ef9363db1 14.0 landed
- e7c183cd1fd1 11.9 landed
- b22ca7648b6f 12.4 landed
- 9496908d465e 9.6.19 landed
- 91e27a3e80b6 10.14 landed
- 34ef5863c77b 9.5.23 landed
Doc: document POSIX-style time zone specifications in full.
- 070f49005350 11.9 landed
- c10dc2d11791 13.0 landed
- 3b8210da32c4 12.4 landed
- a3235a53ae9f 14.0 landed
- 28fa0484efe9 10.14 landed
- 28589a8350d3 9.6.19 landed
- 089a63ec80e0 9.5.23 landed
Please find attached diffs for documentation and simple regression
- b2b6548c79eb 8.1.0 cited