India time zone missing

"Sanjay" <sbanerji@bom.direm.com> writes:

The India Time Zone (IST) which is 5:30 + ahead of UST / GMT is not availab=
le in PostgreSQL.

Looks like the Israelis beat you to it:

{"ist", TZ, POS(8)}, /* Israel */

This isn't the first such conflict we've heard about. I suppose the
eventual solution will be to remove the built-in table of timezone names
in favor of a configuration file that defines the timezones to be used,
so that people could easily customize the zone names for local use.
This is not very high on the to-do list of any of the key developers,
however. In the meantime you could just hack the timezone table (look
in src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c).

Also, India specific built in conversions (e.g. utf_8_to_euc_jp) for Indian=
languages like Hindi, Tamil, etc. seem to be missing.

Want to contribute them?

regards, tom lane