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diff --git a/src/timezone/README b/src/timezone/README index 1df4ce1f69a..f2f80c7176a 100644 --- a/src/timezone/README +++ b/src/timezone/README @@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ in the same commit. Usually, if a known abbreviation has changed meaning, the appropriate fix is to make it refer to a long-form zone name instead of a fixed GMT offset. +The core regression test suite does some simple validation of the zone +data and abbreviations data (notably by checking that the pg_timezone_names +and pg_timezone_abbrevs views don't throw errors). It's worth running it +as a cross-check on proposed updates. + When there has been a new release of Windows (probably including Service Packs), the list of matching timezones need to be updated. Run the script in src/tools/win32tzlist.pl on a Windows machine running this new |