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Re: Anybody care about having the verbose form of the tzdata files?

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgreSQL.org
Date: 2017-11-21T09:28:34Z
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> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> So I'm wondering if we should replace src/timezone/data/* with
> tzdata.zi, in the name of reducing the size of our tarballs.

+1

> Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files?

I doubt there is anyone who cares about that who isn’t already consuming the
upstream data.

cheers ./daniel

Commits

  1. Replace raw timezone source data with IANA's new compact format.

  2. Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013i.