Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab
Date
Msg-id 1709.1239065335@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
Responses Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> At the VERY LEAST, can we PLEASE have the zone.tab file
> INSTALLED WHERE IT BELONGS rather than simply ignored, so that even if
> further requests to include the information in a system view go
> unheard by -hackers, I can at least provide a pgfoundry module or
> something to do the job.

I still see no point in this unless we expose the information in
pg_timezone_names, which requires rather more than a one-line patch.
If you want to prepare such a patch and put it in the queue for 8.5,
go right ahead.
        regards, tom lane


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