In connection with doing this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/22214.1315343818@sss.pgh.pa.us
I've run into the problem that tz_acceptable(), which needs to be
available to frontend-ish code if initdb is to use it, depends on these
symbols:
#define UNIX_EPOCH_JDATE 2440588 /* == date2j(1970, 1, 1) */
#define POSTGRES_EPOCH_JDATE 2451545 /* == date2j(2000, 1, 1) */
#define SECS_PER_DAY 86400
which are defined in backend-only include files such as
utils/timestamp.h. This immediately brought to mind the pgrminclude
fiasco of a couple days ago, which was at least in part due to the fact
that utils/timestamp.h got included into some very low-level header
files so that they could use typedef TimestampTz. So I think it's time
to do something about that.
I propose moving the Timestamp/Interval typedefs, as well as some basic
associated macros such as the ones mentioned above (basically, lines
25-100 of utils/timestamp.h, plus the DT_NOBEGIN/DT_NOEND stuff, plus
the Julian-date macros in datetime.h), into a separate header file that
contains no backend-only declarations (eg, not fmgr.h stuff; right
offhand I don't think it would depend on anything except c.h).
If you believe the idea I suggested a few days ago that we ought to try
to push basic typedefs into a separate set of headers, then this could
be the first instance of that, which would lead to naming it something
like "datatype/timestamp.h". If that seems premature, then I guess it
ought to go into utils/, but then we need some other name because
utils/timestamp.h is taken.
Thoughts?
regards, tom lane
