| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | hernan gonzalez <hgonzalez(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Timezones (in 8.5?) |
| Date: | 2009-11-29 13:09:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200911291309.nATD93G10824@momjian.us |
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Andrew Gierth wrote:
> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>
> Bruce> I think there is general agreement that we should have a
> Bruce> timezone data type which validates against
> Bruce> pg_timezone_names().name.
>
> What happens when pg_timezone_names output changes? (which it can do,
> especially if the install is using the OS tzdata; even if not using OS
> tzdata, it's not expected to be stable even between point releases)
Uh, wow, yea, that would invalidate stored data --- yuck.
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