On 2019-09-30 21:36, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Instead of AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE we use our own variant called
>> PGAC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE that checks for tzname even if other variants were
>> found first. But since 63bd0db12199c5df043e1dea0f2b574f622b3a4c we
>> don't use tzname anymore, so we don't need this anymore.
>
> Hmm. I wonder if we need AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE either? Seems like
> we should only be using our own struct pg_tm.
There are a few places that seem to need it, such as initdb/findtimezone.c.
> If we could get
> rid of that configure macro altogether, we could remove some dubious
> junk like plpython.h's "#undef HAVE_TZNAME".
We could keep just the part of AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE that we need, namely
the check for tm_zone, and remove the part about tzname.
New patch attached.
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