Re: Time Zone in Postgres

I copied the system zonefiles into the postgres database and it works
fine now. This is anyway a temporary solution until we upgrade all our
systems.

Thanks to all for your suggestions and help.



Tom Lane wrote:
> Shilpa Sudhakar <ssudhakar@internode.com.au> writes:
>
>> As i said, we have version 8.2.4 databases and if i need to just update
>> the timezone files for this database do i copy the zoneinfo files from
>> the OS zonefile or from the newer version of Postgres zonefiles.
>>
>
> If your platform uses the standard zoneinfo format (and if the file
> trees look similar, it probably does) then you could just copy the
> system's zoneinfo files into the Postgres directories, assuming you've
> gotten updated zoneinfo files for the system.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>