Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> When used and a symlink, could we resolve the symlink when determining
> the timezone? When loading a timezone in the backend, not during
> initdb. While that'd leave us with the instability, it'd at least would
> help clients etc understand what the setting actually means?
The question here is what the string "localtime" means when it's in
the timezone variable.
I guess yes, we could install some show_hook for timezone
that goes and looks to see if it can resolve what that means.
But that sure seems to me to be in you've-got-to-be-kidding
territory. Especially since the platforms I've seen that
do this tend to use hard links, so that it's questionable
whether the pushups would accomplish anything at all.
regards, tom lane