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 20090410191206.GC23155@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
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:01:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > Tom,
> >> Like what?  I do not actually believe that anyone needs an
> >> interactive geographical timezone selector based on
> >> pg_timezone_names.
> 
> > Actually, considering that PostgreSQL is the leading open source
> > GIS database, I expect that a *lot* of people want this.
> 
> Surely we'd have seen more complaints, then.

You're setting a pretty high bar here for a pretty small change which
will cause a pretty large increase in convenience.  What is the actual
problem here?

Cheers,
David.
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