On 06/07/2019 06:16, Mark Rotteveel wrote:

> 
> 1. The minimal thing that can and should be done to address the problem
> that kicked off this email thread, is to ensure that `decodeTimestampTz`
> has a fallback if ICU is not available to render named zones properly
> (that is: render the time as UTC or +00:00 which is 1) possible with the
> current information available and 2) an acceptable fallback).
> 

The fallback is there already: caller can detect problem and do what he
wants.

Automatically change something that may be re-entered as input and saved
to the DB in a different way is very problematic and should not be done.


Adriano



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