Wow! I just looked this up on the web, and all I can say is, this was a really stupid idea on the part of the govt in Argentina. It takes more than a couple days to create new timezone files and deploy them normally.
I've been reading up on zic and wondering if it's a reasonable thing to try and update the pg tz db to include the new argentinian DST change. Where is the tz info stored in postgres? In the catalog? I'd be willing to take a whack at making a new tz file for argentina if I knew where it was and how to change it. (scuttles off to look at the 8.2.5 source) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match