Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> As a side note - I'm not sure why _USE_32BIT_TIME_T was removed in the
> first place; it was added specifically to avoid this sort of problem,
> though iirc at the time we were thinking of extensions like Slony and
> PostGIS being built with Mingw for use with the VC++ built server.
We removed it when we changed our internal time_t usage to 64 bits:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=cd004067742ee16ee63e55abfb4acbd5f09fbaab
Possibly that was just a brain fade caused by failing to think about
the distinction between pg_time_t and system time_t. However, the
code has been like that since 8.4, and nobody complained before.
I share Andrew's unease about whether this issue is fully understood.
regards, tom lane
