Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system
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Msg-id 46CDE1D8.3000207@sun.com
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add configure option --with-system-tzdata to use operating system  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> FWIW, hardwiring plus an environment variable would seem to address all 
>> currently known und unknown requirements, and is not so totally 
>> different from solutions to previous, related problems.
> 
> I think we are converging on the recognition that Zdenek was right the
> first time.  I'd go for plain hardwired --- I think an environment
> variable is more likely to be a foot-gun than anything useful.
> (Recall the original argument that choosing to use an external TZ
> database is not something to be done lightly.)

Tom,

Let me know if there something what should be adjusted on my patch. I 
would like to do it tomorrow, because I will be offline for next two weeks.
    thanks Zdenek


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