Re: Brazil disables DST - 2019b update

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:14 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Robins Tharakan <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The 2019b DST update [1] disables DST for Brazil. This would take effect
> > starting November 2019. The last DST update in Postgres was 2019a in
> v11.3
> > (since this update came in after the recent-most Postgres release).
>
> Yeah. I intend to install 2019b (or later?) before our next minor
> releases.
>
> > Since a ~3 month release cycle may be too close for some users, are there
> > any plans for an early 11.5 (or are such occurrences not a candidate for
> an
> > early release)?
>
> We do not consider tzdb updates to be a release-forcing issue.
> The fact that we ship tzdb at all is just a courtesy to PG users who
> are on platforms that lack a more direct way to get tzdb updates.
> The usual recommendation on well-maintained production systems is to
> configure PG with --with-system-tzdata, then rely on your platform
> vendor for timely updates of that data.
>

It should be noted that this is not true on Windows -- on Windows we cannot
use the system timezone functionality, and rely entirely on the files we
ship as part of our release.

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