Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > What is the actual problem being solved here? That people expected the > timezone changes to be picked up automatically? think if you weigh it > up, that problem is less significant than: ...
One other point is that symlinking to system timezone info will not cause Postgres to "pick up changes automatically". You'll probably still need a postmaster restart to get the new settings loaded in. If the timezone info update is delivered as part of a Postgres update, the need for this is fairly obvious, but if it's happening as part of an update of a seemingly unrelated package, not so much. To me, the idea of linking to system timezone info is a convenience for packagers, and it is (and should be) the packagers' responsibility to determine whether it's a sane idea for their environment. If they are competent to determine that, they are certainly competent enough to make it happen without assistance from our configure script. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings