Re: system timezone regression failure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: system timezone regression failure
Date
Msg-id 4A6F508E.7040703@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: system timezone regression failure  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: system timezone regression failure  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Building 8.4 on a client's system, I get a regression failure apparently 
>> due to some difference between the system's timezone DB and what out 
>> regression tests expect, as shown below.
>>     
>
> Those regression tests were *intentionally* set up to fail if someone's
> TZ support is not Y2038 clean.  This is not a bug.  Advise your client
> to get some less-obsolete timezone data files; or don't depend on the
> system TZ database.  (The only reason why you should do so is if it's
> being kept up to date, eh?)
>
>             
>   

Oh, you're right, I misread the diffs. The client is getting the 
machines updated.

cheers

andrew


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