Re: DST failing on 8.1.3

I copied the files over, restarted, and everything's fine.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Silvela <JSilvela@bear.com> writes:
>
>> I looked for those timezone files, and they're missing on my production
>> installation. Probably the upgrade from 7.* to 8.1 was a quick&dirty one.
>> I don't even have a 'timezone' folder in the share directory.
>>
>
> Oh, that's your problem then --- 'EST5EDT' is being taken as a Posix
> spec for lack of any matching file.
>
>
>> Would it
>> be dangerous to add one until I can upgrade the production installation?
>>
>
> Should work to just copy over the timezone directory tree from a correct
> installation on the same machine architecture (I can't recall right now
> if the file format is machine-dependent or not).  You might have to
> restart the postmaster too, before it starts behaving entirely sanely.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>


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