Christoph Berg <c...@df7cb.de> writes: > 84df54b22e8035addc7108abd9ff6995e8c49264 introduced timestamp > constructors. In the regression tests, various time zones are tested, > including America/Metlakatla. Now, if you configure using > --with-system-tzdata, you'll get an error if that zone isn't there. > Unfortunately, this is what I'm getting now when trying to build beta1 > on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) with tzdata 2010i-1:
I agree, that seems an entirely gratuitous choice of zone. It does seem like a good idea to test a zone that has a nonintegral offset from GMT, but we can get that from almost anywhere as long as we're testing a pre-1900 date. There's no need to use any zones that aren't long-established and unlikely to change. I'm quite unimpressed by the dependency on Mars/Mons_Olympus, too ... that might not fail *today*, but considering it's a real location, assuming it is not in the IANA database seems like a recipe for future failure. Maybe something like Nehwon/Lankhmar? Or maybe we should not try to be cute but just test Foo/Bar. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers