Re: New tzdata available - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: New tzdata available
Date
Msg-id 10951.1194624559@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: New tzdata available  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> Another interesting questions are what postgres does when timezone files 
> are changed? Does it need SIGHUP to invoke rereading? What is impact on 
> current running transaction when tz file is changed?

This falls into the category of "get a life".  There is no program in
the world that automatically reacts to timezone data updates.  The
normal expectation is that you reboot, because such always-on daemons as
"cron" will already have read the timezone file into memory.  The libc
API doesn't even provide a way that one could tell libc to re-read after
SIGHUP, say.
        regards, tom lane


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