diff --git a/postgresql-use-zoneinfo.patch b/postgresql-use-zoneinfo.patch
index 2fbccc0..01b1d2b 100644
--- a/postgresql-use-zoneinfo.patch
+++ b/postgresql-use-zoneinfo.patch
@@ -2,38 +2,20 @@ PostgreSQL includes its own copy of the zic timezone database, which is great
 for ensuring portable results but not so great from a package maintenance
 perspective.  Since the data is in the same format as is provided by the
 Linux-standard /usr/share/zoneinfo files, we can avoid having to update
-postgresql for timezone updates by just symlinking to those files.
+postgresql for timezone updates by just using those files instead.
 
-It is allegedly desirable for the link in question to be a relative symlink.
-I have strong doubts about this, not least because it requires the horrid
-install-time kluge seen below --- we can't use a simple relative symlink when
-making the temporary installation used for "make check", since that will be at
-an indeterminate location compared to /usr/share.  The actual relative link
-also depends fundamentally upon knowing where the PG datadir will get
-installed, namely /usr/share/pgsql.
-
-And if you thought that was bad, it turns out that RPM has some fundamental
-bugs that make it difficult or impossible to replace a directory with a
-symlink during RPM upgrade.  Rather than risk getting caught in that quagmire,
-we choose to name the symlink something different than its predecessor
-subdirectory.  (This part of the hack could perhaps get undone someday, when
-there is no longer any danger of someone trying to rpm-upgrade from an
-installation that isn't patched this way.)
+Note: as of PG 8.3 this patch will be unnecessary; use configure's
+--with-system-tzdata switch instead.
 
 
 diff -Naur postgresql-8.2.4.orig/src/timezone/Makefile postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/Makefile
 --- postgresql-8.2.4.orig/src/timezone/Makefile	2007-03-14 13:38:15.000000000 -0400
-+++ postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/Makefile	2007-08-22 16:57:41.000000000 -0400
-@@ -38,14 +38,18 @@
++++ postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/Makefile	2007-08-25 16:38:53.000000000 -0400
+@@ -38,14 +38,12 @@
  	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(ZICOBJS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@$(X)
  
  install: all installdirs
 -	./zic -d '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/timezone' -p '$(POSIXRULES)' $(TZDATAFILES)
-+	if [ x'$(DESTDIR)' = x`echo '$(DESTDIR)' | sed 's,tmp_check/install,,'` ] ; then \
-+		ln -s '../zoneinfo' '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/zoneinfo' ; \
-+	else \
-+		ln -s '/usr/share/zoneinfo' '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/zoneinfo' ; \
-+	fi
  	$(MAKE) -C tznames $@
  
  installdirs:
@@ -41,19 +23,39 @@ diff -Naur postgresql-8.2.4.orig/src/timezone/Makefile postgresql-8.2.4/src/time
  
  uninstall:
 -	rm -rf '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/timezone'
-+	rm '$(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/zoneinfo'
  	$(MAKE) -C tznames $@
  
  clean distclean maintainer-clean:
 diff -Naur postgresql-8.2.4.orig/src/timezone/pgtz.c postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/pgtz.c
 --- postgresql-8.2.4.orig/src/timezone/pgtz.c	2006-11-21 18:11:55.000000000 -0500
-+++ postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/pgtz.c	2007-08-22 16:57:04.000000000 -0400
-@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
- 		return tzdir;
++++ postgresql-8.2.4/src/timezone/pgtz.c	2007-08-25 16:42:32.000000000 -0400
+@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@
+ pg_tz	   *global_timezone = NULL;
  
- 	get_share_path(my_exec_path, tzdir);
+ 
+-static char tzdir[MAXPGPATH];
+-static bool done_tzdir = false;
+-
+ static bool scan_directory_ci(const char *dirname,
+ 							  const char *fname, int fnamelen,
+ 							  char *canonname, int canonnamelen);
+@@ -45,17 +42,10 @@
+ /*
+  * Return full pathname of timezone data directory
+  */
+-static char *
++static const char *
+ pg_TZDIR(void)
+ {
+-	if (done_tzdir)
+-		return tzdir;
+-
+-	get_share_path(my_exec_path, tzdir);
 -	strlcpy(tzdir + strlen(tzdir), "/timezone", MAXPGPATH - strlen(tzdir));
-+	strlcpy(tzdir + strlen(tzdir), "/zoneinfo", MAXPGPATH - strlen(tzdir));
+-
+-	done_tzdir = true;
+-	return tzdir;
++	return "/usr/share/zoneinfo";
+ }
+ 
  
- 	done_tzdir = true;
- 	return tzdir;
diff --git a/postgresql.spec b/postgresql.spec
index 51670a3..21d6460 100755
--- a/postgresql.spec
+++ b/postgresql.spec
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 Summary: PostgreSQL client programs and libraries
 Name: postgresql
 Version: 8.2.4
-Release: 4%{?dist}
+Release: 5%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Group: Applications/Databases
 Url: http://www.postgresql.org/ 
@@ -743,7 +743,6 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/pgsql/postgres.shdescription
 %{_datadir}/pgsql/system_views.sql
 %{_datadir}/pgsql/*.sample
-%{_datadir}/pgsql/zoneinfo
 %{_datadir}/pgsql/timezonesets/
 %{_libdir}/pgsql/plpgsql.so
 %dir %{_datadir}/pgsql
@@ -820,6 +819,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Aug 25 2007 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 8.2.4-5
+- Use nicer solution for tzdata file substitution: upstream discussion
+  concluded that hardwiring the path was better than a symlink after all.
+
 * Wed Aug 22 2007 Tom Lane <tgl@redhat.com> 8.2.4-4
 - Use tzdata package's data files instead of private copy, so that
   postgresql-server need not be turned for routine timezone updates