Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
I think that from a data integrity point of view the current system is
the best. At the very least what you propose is a modularity violation:
Postgres depending on undocumented private data of another system
component.
I don't think you can reasonably describe the system timezone database
as undocumented private data. Plenty of other systems rely on it, as we
used to do.
But I take Tom's point about most users not knowing if their TZ database
is usable or not. Maybe we need a tool (maybe on pgfoundry) that will do
some analysis to find out, if such a thing is possible.
I guess some regression test should test TZ validity?
Zdenek
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