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    Doc: document POSIX-style time zone specifications in full. · a3235a53
    Tom Lane authored
    We'd glossed over most of this complexity for years, but it's hard
    to avoid writing it all down now, so that we can explain what happens
    when there's no "posixrules" file in the IANA time zone database.
    That was at best a tiny minority situation till now, but it's likely
    to become quite common in the future, so we'd better explain it.
    
    Nonetheless, we don't really encourage people to use POSIX zone specs;
    picking a named zone is almost always what you really want, unless
    perhaps you're stuck with an out-of-date zone database.  Therefore,
    let's shove all this detail into an appendix.
    
    Patch by me; thanks to Robert Haas for help with some awkward wording.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1390.1562258309@sss.pgh.pa.us
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