Re: win32.mak patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Dave Page
Subject Re: win32.mak patch
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Msg-id 937d27e10801090110u20994721l43f6e49bc2ed903e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: win32.mak patch  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On 08/01/2008, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:02:24AM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote:

> A question there though - do we care about the length of time_t on client
> platforms, or should we instead just disable the whole check for the
> client? AFAICS we don't expose time_t at all on the client, so why should
> we force libpq *clients* to build with 32-bit time_t? Shouldn't we go with
> the attached patch instead?

That makes sense to me - why dictate to client apps when we don't need
to. We can always change the check in the future in the unlikely event
that we do expose time_t - which I can't imagine being in anything
other than a major release.

/D

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