| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Ed L(dot)" <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: daylight savings patches needed? |
| Date: | 2007-03-13 01:30:12 |
| Message-ID: | 22302.1173749412@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:13:42PM -0600, Ed L. wrote:
>> Would I be correct in understanding that every pre-8.0 cluster
>> must be restarted in order for the OS changes to take affect?!?
> Possibly, I imagine many C libraries would cache the timezone data over
> a fork and might not motice the changes...
Postgres is hardly the only app that behaves like that. I saw a bunch
of traffic on the Red Hat lists yesterday/today about cron, syslogd,
etc needing restarts in various releases.
regards, tom lane
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