Palle Girgensohn <gir...@pingpong.net> writes: >> 6 nov. 2019 kl. 03:03 skrev Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com>: >>> *It looks like FreeBSD's port uses the copy of tzdata from the >>> PostgreSQL source tree by default and thus that is what you get if you >>> install PostgreSQL with "pkg". That's not a great default IMHO and >>> should be changed.
> The decision to use postgresql's tzdata is quite old. It was based on the > assumption that postgres is updated more frequently than the operating > system, and that for that reason it was better to use postgresql's tzdata, > since it would be more accurate more often. This is probably not true > anymore, so I agree it should probably be changed to default=system-tzdata on > FreeBSD. > I will commit an upgrade in Thursday, and unless anybody raise their voice > against it, I will change the default setting then. So it seems that that change was not entirely without fallout: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/16118-ef1e45e342c52416%40postgresql.org I don't think this is reason to revert the change, exactly, but it's a concern. I wonder why FreeBSD editorializes on the set of zone names? regards, tom lane
