Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0106071623030.757-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES breaks regression tests in 7.1.2?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> I am inclined to think that treating USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES as a compile
> time option was the wrong idea.  It should be a runtime (GUC) option;
> then it can be switched off to run the regress tests, regardless of
> whether a particular installation keeps it on by default.

Right.  I was in fact inclined to do this for 7.1, but the problem is that
the time zone lookup is driven by a static table, so it would probably
require a bit of uglification to make this work.  But it's surely
feasible.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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