Re: daylight savings patches needed? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: daylight savings patches needed?
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Msg-id 22302.1173749412@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: daylight savings patches needed?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0600, Ed L. wrote:
>> Would I be correct in understanding that every pre-8.0 cluster
>> must be restarted in order for the OS changes to take affect?!?

> Possibly, I imagine many C libraries would cache the timezone data over
> a fork and might not motice the changes...

Postgres is hardly the only app that behaves like that.  I saw a bunch
of traffic on the Red Hat lists yesterday/today about cron, syslogd,
etc needing restarts in various releases.

            regards, tom lane

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