On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:14 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robins Tharakan <thara...@gmail.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. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
