On May 27, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: >> I like it, but what do you do when a TZ has been renamed or has ceased >> to exist. > > As far as that goes, I think "nothing" is a sufficient answer. There's > no requirement that an OID in the mapping table correspond to a live TZ. > It's just a more compact way of storing a string name.
Well then you'd just want to be sure to never delete TZs. I think the issue of trying this week to use a TZ that was removed last week might be more problematic. I mean, we could just let the user use it, but that hardly seems wise… Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
