Hi,

At work, our production 8.1.x systems were having problems with
timezones.  A new code push had newer 2006 time zones that Postgres
didn't recognize. 

To fix this I built a custom RPM that overwrites the timezone data
with the latest data from nih.gov.  

I changed the postgres-8.1.4-1PDG.spec file as follows:

  * Add the following line to the end of the Source file section:

    Source99: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006g.tar.gz

  * Add the following commands to the end of the %prep section

    cd src/timezone/data
    tar xzvf %{SOURCE99}


Some questions...  

 * Is this the correct way to do this?  
 * Can updating the timezone data be a part of the release checklist?
 * Finally, is it possible to upgrade a running server with new timezone
   data?

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