Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from David Fetter's message of lun jul 30 17:27:46 -0400 2012:
>> Can we slide this into the upcoming point release? When would that
>> be?
> Usually, Tom installs the latest timezone data just before each point
> release.
It's part of the release checklist.
In practice, people who need the latest TZ data shouldn't be relying
on our copy anyway. I think pretty much all distros build with
--with-system-tzdata so that the distros' own updates of tzdata get
picked up automatically by Postgres.
regards, tom lane