Re: Add FET to Default and Europe.txt

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-10-08T10:36:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 8 October 2012 11:14, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:

>> So I think we need 2 new settings: one called "Postgres92", one called
>> "Postgres93". 93 has the new settings and is the default.
>>
>> "Default" would no longer map to anything, to make sure we have an
>> explicit break of compatibility.
>
> Removing the timezone abbreviations from the default settings is
> probably the wrong approach.  People use them, I use them, and my
> original request to add FET came from the fact that someone wanted to
> use it.

Sorry for any confusion. I've not suggested removing timezone
abbreviations, nor do I wish to do so.

I did suggest that we do not rely upon TZ abbreviations in any code
shipped by PostgreSQL project, but I suspect that is a non-problem
anyway.

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