I believe Thomas is working on the datetime issues.
>
> With Shakespearian flourish, "Vadim B. Mikheev" writes:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > With the 6.1 release two weeks old, and no one really adding any new
> > > feature, is it a good idea to think about creating a 6.1 patch in the
> > > next week or so to add some fixes?
> > >
> > > I have the ownership preservation code installed, there could be an
> > > endian-communication patch, a datetime patch, and perhaps some others.
> >
> > + datestyle fix...
> >
> > Also, I have patch to avoid unnecessary fsyncs (now 'copy ... from'
> > takes near the same time as with -F), but I have to test it more
> > on the next week...
> >
> > Also, I play with hash-indices now (so big, so slow ones)...
>
> Bruce,
>
> What is this datetime patch you speak of?
>
> I'm spending today looking at the datetime handling (actually, all of
> the timezone handling that trickles down from nabstime.c) -- my 6.1
> install on AIX 3.2.5 broke heavily, and I think I've finally figured
> out all of the problems.
>
> If someone else is looking at this, I'd like to put our heads together.
> Whoever fixes it, I think it definitely needs to go into 6.1p1. I can
> have patches ready today, I just have to research "official" BSD and
> POSIX.1 timezone support a little more.
>
> -Frank
>
> P.S> At one point, my machine was 25 years west of GMT. Pretty cool!
>
> P.P.S> Send all flames for "not testing the beta" my way. I wore the
> asbestos underwear today!
>
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>
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