On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote: >> On 20 Nov 2017, at 21:38, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> Anybody here actually care about reading the zone data files? > > I doubt there is anyone who cares about that who isn’t already consuming the > upstream data.
Perhaps I do. If this set of files gets removed and replaced by the zi file, is it possible to still know easily which files are being removed during a minor upgrade? When doing minor upgrades of a MSI installer (Windows, yeah!), I need to keep track of files that get deleted or a minor upgrade would simply fail. The tweak that I have is to list them and recreate them as empty. The thing is ugly as hell, but I need to be able to track which files are being removed easily. And as far as I am checking, for example taking the rather recent example of Riyadh87 in commit e04641f4, src/timezone/data allows to keep easily track of files removed. If this gets removed, I am pretty convinced that this tracking gets more complicated. -- Michael
