Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab
Date
Msg-id 20090407221247.GA25391@fetter.org
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In response to Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: A renewed plea for inclusion of zone.tab  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:48:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
> > At the VERY LEAST, can we PLEASE have the zone.tab file INSTALLED
> > WHERE IT BELONGS rather than simply ignored, so that even if
> > further requests to include the information in a system view go
> > unheard by -hackers, I can at least provide a pgfoundry module or
> > something to do the job.
> 
> I still see no point in this unless we expose the information in
> pg_timezone_names, which requires rather more than a one-line patch.
> If you want to prepare such a patch and put it in the queue for 8.5,
> go right ahead.

There's really no point, and a lot of good stuff lost, in leaving this
thing out.  It's not like the few kilobytes it takes up could possibly
matter in the grand scheme of things.

Cheers,
David.
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