Re: tzcode update - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: tzcode update
Date
Msg-id 20080218153706.GH30632@svr2.hagander.net
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In response to Re: tzcode update  (Bjorn Munch <Bjorn.Munch@sun.com>)
Responses Re: tzcode update  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:32:58PM +0100, Bjorn Munch wrote:
> On 13/02 10.51, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > >I'll add some tests to cover timestamps > 2038.
> >
> > Attached is a new patch, with a couple of new regression tests. No other
> > changes.
>
> Ouch!  This fails on our Solaris builds, because we build with the
> Solaris timezone files.  And these apparently don't work beyond 2038
> and don't know that Finland plans to have DST also in the summer of
> 2050...
>
> I haven't studied this in depth but I'm afraid the answer is "fix your
> own timezone files"?

Or use the ones shipping with pg ;-)

This sounds exactly like the problem scenario brought forward when the
patch to use OS timezonedata was added. But I'd assume there are plans for
Solaris to include this data as well in the future, no? You'll have to
eventually....

//Magnus

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