Tom Lane wrote: > 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.
Well, it wasn't entirely gratuituous -- it had a very large offset from UTC to one direction and made a sudden jump to the opposite direction in 1900. Obviously I didn't notice the timezone had been created in 2011. (I bet if this hadn't been tried in a platform with such an old tzdata, this wouldn't have been noticed. Don't Ubuntu update tzdata on their LTS platforms!?) > 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. I liked Mars/Mons_Olympus, but Nehwon/Lankhmar is good too. /me adds more to his to-read list -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
