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Re: More tzdb fun: POSIXRULES is being deprecated upstream

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

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-06-19T08:09:46Z
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On 2020-06-17 20:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> I would definitely be in favor of "nuke it now" with respect to HEAD.
> It's a bit more debatable for the back branches.  However, all branches
> are going to be equally exposed to updated system tzdata trees, so
> we've typically felt that changes in the tz-related code should be
> back-patched.

It seems sensible to me to remove it in master and possibly 
REL_13_STABLE, but leave it alone in the back branches.

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Commits

  1. Remove support for timezone "posixrules" file.

  2. Future-proof regression tests against possibly-missing posixrules file.

  3. Doc: document POSIX-style time zone specifications in full.

  4. Please find attached diffs for documentation and simple regression