> >> The crash people are getting in initdb is due to the 1.19
> revision to
> >> pgtz.c. Not sure why yet...looking into it...
> >
> >Unfortunate behavior when probing pre-1970 dates, maybe?
>
>
> Indeed that was the problem. Attached patch fixes the issue
> here and for Merlin :-)
>
> I've also figured out why it always worked for me. When in
> the western europe timezone, the bug does not show up
> (probably because we don't probe those dates). When I set my
> system to US Eastern, it broke.
Here we go again with a more correct patch, per Toms comments and hints
off-list.
//Magnus